CVE-2017-7543

Summary

CVECVE-2017-7543
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-07-26 14:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-12 23:30:00 UTC
DescriptionA race-condition flaw was discovered in openstack-neutron before 7.2.0-12.1, 8.x before 8.3.0-11.1, 9.x before 9.3.1-2.1, and 10.x before 10.0.2-1.1, where, following a minor overcloud update, neutron security groups were disabled. Specifically, the following were reset to 0: net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables and net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables. The race was only triggered by an update, at which point an attacker could access exposed tenant VMs and network resources.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openstack Neutron All All All All
Application Openstack Neutron All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 10 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 10.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 11 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 11.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 6.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 7.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 8 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 8.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 9 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 9.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 10.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 11.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 6.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 7.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 8.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 9.0 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
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
1473792 – (CVE-2017-7543) CVE-2017-7543 openstack-neutron: iptables not active after update CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE-2017-7543 - Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Bug 1473792 – CVE-2017-7543 openstack-neutron: iptables not active after update MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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