CVE-2017-18191

Summary

CVECVE-2017-18191
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-02-19 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in OpenStack Nova 15.x through 15.1.0 and 16.x through 16.1.1. By detaching and reattaching an encrypted volume, an attacker may access the underlying raw volume and corrupt the LUKS header, resulting in a denial of service attack on the compute host. (The same code error also results in data loss, but that is not a vulnerability because the user loses their own data.) All Nova setups supporting encrypted volumes are affected.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openstack Nova All All All All
Application Openstack Nova All All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 10 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 12 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 9 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 10 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 12 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 9 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
OpenStack Docs: OSSA-2018-001: Raw underlying encrypted volume access CONFIRM security.openstack.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Bug #1739593 “[OSSA-2018-001] Swapping encrypted volumes can lea...” : Bugs : OpenStack Compute (nova) CONFIRM launchpad.net Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Gerrit Code Review CONFIRM review.openstack.org Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - [OSSA-2018-001] Raw underlying encrypted volume access (CVE-2017-18191) MISC openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199170 Ubuntu Security Notification for Nova Vulnerabilities (USN-5866-1)
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