CVE-2017-12155: Tripleo heat templates Openstack Tripleo-heat-templates Unauthenticated File Access Vulnerability
MODERATECVE-2017-12155 is a MODERATE (CVSS 6.3) openstack tripleo-heat-templates unauthenticated file access vulnerability (CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function) affecting Tripleo heat templates libraries in the PyPI ecosystem. The issue involves openstack tripleo-heat-templates unauthenticated file access. Remediation is available by upgrading affected packages to version 7.0.6.
CVE-2017-12155 at a Glance
Security Impact
CVSS: 6.3
The security impact metrics below are parsed directly from the CVSS v3.1 vector string (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N).
How to Fix CVE-2017-12155
To remediate this vulnerability, upgrade all affected Tripleo heat templates dependencies to a patched release. Both direct and transitive dependencies should be checked, as frameworks or security libraries may pull in vulnerable versions transitively.
pip install tripleo-heat-templates>=7.0.6Run the following command in your project directory to verify that all resolved dependencies use the patched release:
pip show tripleo-heat-templatesHow to Check if You Are Affected
To determine whether your Python environment is affected by CVE-2017-12155, inspect your installed packages using pip:
pip show tripleo-heat-templatesAnalyze the terminal output to locate any version of Tripleo heat templates in your dependency tree. If any resolved version matches the vulnerable ranges listed in the table below (for example, versions earlier than 7.0.6), your application is affected.
Note: The pip show tripleo-heat-templates command checks currently installed packages in your active Python environment.
Technical Details
Vulnerability Mechanism & Technical Analysis
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function, where the product does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources. In Tripleo heat templates, software state validation or input boundaries are circumvented during processing. Review the official source advisory statement below for specific affected components, classes, and reproduction details.
Source Advisory Statement
CVE-2017-12155 Affected Tripleo heat templates Versions
1 component(s)| Product / Package | Ecosystem | Affected Versions | Fixed Version |
|---|---|---|---|
|
tripleo-heat-templates
|
PyPI |
< 7.0.6
|
7.0.6
|
References
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Machine-readable OSV JSON
OSV v1.5 Schema
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"id" : "GHSA-w8gx-hhcx-px6w",
"modified" : "2023-10-10T15:43:09Z",
"published" : "2022-05-13T01:42:38Z",
"aliases" : [ "CVE-2017-12155" ],
"summary" : "Openstack tripleo-heat-templates unauthenticated file access",
"details" : "A resource-permission flaw was found in the `tripleo-heat-templates` package where `ceph.client.openstack.keyring` is created as world-readable. A local attacker with access to the key could read or modify data on Ceph cluster pools for OpenStack as though the attacker were the OpenStack service, thus potentially reading or modifying data in an OpenStack Block Storage volume. This has been patched in versions [7.0.6](https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-heat-templates/commit/a18fd59077d97de83496c85c017b9d256a3eddd4) and [8.0.0](https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-heat-templates/commit/ce7b65f443d38a6627631f53cb22336338e97d30).",
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"url" : "https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-heat-templates"
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"severity" : "MODERATE",
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