Authentication Bypass

The openstack-heat packages provide heat, a Python implementation of the OpenStack Orchestration engine, to launch multiple composite cloud applications based on templates. It was found that heat did not properly enforce cloudformation-compatible API policy rules. An in-instance attacker could us...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6428

The ReST API in OpenStack Orchestration API Heat before Havana 2013.2.1 and Icehouse before icehouse-2 allows remote authenticated users to bypass the tenant scoping restrictions via a modified tenantid in the request path...

CVE-2013-6428

OpenStack Heat vulnerability (CVE-2013-6428) affects the Heat REST API in OpenStack Orchestration. The issue allows an authenticated remote user to bypass tenant scoping by modifying the tenant_id in the request path, potentially enabling privilege escalation. Public vendor advisories confirm the...