First published: Thu Jan 31 2013(Updated: )
OpenStack Keystone Essex 2012.1.3 and earlier, Folsom 2012.2.3 and earlier, and Grizzly grizzly-2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via many invalid token requests that trigger excessive generation of log entries.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
OpenStack Keystone | >=2012.1<=2012.1.3 | |
OpenStack Keystone | >=2012.2<=2012.2.3 | |
OpenStack Keystone | >=2013.1<=2013.1.2 | |
Ubuntu Linux | =12.04 | |
Ubuntu Linux | =12.10 |
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CVE-2013-0247 is classified as a denial of service vulnerability.
CVE-2013-0247 allows remote attackers to cause disk consumption by creating excessive log entries through invalid token requests.
CVE-2013-0247 affects OpenStack Keystone versions 2012.1.3 and earlier, 2012.2.3 and earlier, and 2013.1.2 and earlier.
Mitigation for CVE-2013-0247 can involve limiting the rate of token requests and controlling log generation.
You should upgrade to a version of OpenStack Keystone that is later than 2013.1.2 to address CVE-2013-0247.