Dominic Cleal of Red Hat reports:

The "requiressl" setting (in /etc/foreman/settings.yml) should enforce that web requests sent to Foreman over HTTP are redirected to HTTPS, but this was found not to happen with API requests (e.g. from Hammer CLI). Foreman will process API requests over HTTP, but should have redirected.

Redirection won't help with credentials having already been sent, but should give some notification that the user/app is using the wrong URL.

Affects all versions of Foreman since 1.1.

The issue has already been fixed since Foreman 1.9.0-RC1 via a refactor in #10471.

To mitigate this with Apache, add a stanza to the HTTP VirtualHost (e.g. in /etc/httpd/conf.d/05-foreman.d/apiredirect.conf) similar to:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/api/(.) https://%{SERVERNAME}/api/$1 [R,L]

External reference:

http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/11119

app/controllers/api/v1/hostscontroller.rb in Foreman before 1.2.2 does not properly restrict access to hosts, which allows remote attackers to access arbitrary hosts via an API request.

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in app/models/concerns/hostcommon.rb in Foreman before 1.2.3 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) fqdn or (2) hostgroup parameter.

Ramon de C Valle (rcvalle) reports:

There is a mass assignment vulnerability in the create method of the UsersController controller.

The create method in app/controllers/userscontroller.rb deletes the user-controlled user[admin] parameter from the params hash but saves it to a local variable and assigns it to the newly created user object bypassing the :attrprotected mechanism.

def create admin = params[:user].delete :admin @user = User.new(params[:user]){|u| u.admin = admin } if @user.save @user.roles << Role.findbyname("Anonymous") unless @user.roles.map(&:name).include? "Anonymous" processsuccess else processerror end end

Any non-admin user with permissions to create other (non-admin) users (i.e. with Manager role) can create arbitrary admin users by sending a specially-crafted POST request.

Eval injection vulnerability in the create method in the Bookmarks controller in Foreman before 1.2.0-RC2 allows remote authenticated users with permissions to create bookmarks to execute arbitrary code via a controller name attribute.

The (1) power and (2) ipmiboot actions in the HostController in Foreman before 1.2.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified input that is converted to a symbol.