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TI-2017-01887 Aliases CVE-2017-2637GHSA-w8fq-h7pg-632c

Missing authentication in [UNKNOWN] rhosp-director

Priority MEDIUM 50CWE-306Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-306.

Summary

A design flaw issue was found in the Red Hat OpenStack Platform director use of TripleO to enable libvirtd based live-migration. Libvirtd is deployed by default (by director) listening on 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces) with no-authentication or encryption. Anyone able to make a TCP connection to any compute host IP address, including 127.0.0.1, other loopback interface addresses, or in some cases possibly addresses that have been exposed beyond the management interface, could use this to open a virsh session to the libvirtd instance and gain control of virtual machine instances or possibly take over the host.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.04604 91st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Red Hat: 4 advisories

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
[UNKNOWN]rhosp-directorall versions—No fix listedCNA
  • rhosp-director Vendor[UNKNOWN] Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 4

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*7.0VulnerableRed Hat
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*8VulnerableRed Hat
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*9VulnerableRed Hat
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*10VulnerableRed Hat
  • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 7.0 Vulnerable ·Red Hat
  • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 8 Vulnerable ·Red Hat
  • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 9 Vulnerable ·Red Hat
  • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 10 Vulnerable ·Red Hat

Remediation

Red Hat 4 advisories

  • RHSA-2017:1546 Released 2017-06-20 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform director security update
    • OpenStack 8.0 Director for RHEL 7 openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-0.8.14-29.el7ost, openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-kilo-0.8.14-29.el7ost, openstack-tripleo-puppet-elements-0.0.5-2.el7ost +1
  • RHSA-2017:1537 Released 2017-06-20 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform director security update
    • OpenStack 7.0 Director for RHEL 7 openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-0.8.6-135.el7ost, openstack-tripleo-puppet-elements-0.0.1-6.el7ost, python-rdomanager-oscplugin-0.0.10-34.el7ost
  • RHSA-2017:1504 Released 2017-06-19 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform director security update
    • OpenStack 9.0 Director for RHEL 7 openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-2.0.0-57.el7ost, openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-liberty-2.0.0-57.el7ost, openstack-tripleo-puppet-elements-2.0.0-6.el7ost +1
Show 1 more Red Hat advisories
  • RHSA-2017:1242 Released 2017-05-17 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform director security update
    • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 openstack-nova-1:14.0.3-9.el7ost, openstack-nova-api-1:14.0.3-9.el7ost, openstack-nova-cells-1:14.0.3-9.el7ost +19

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
OpenStack 7.0 Director for RHEL 7Fixed RHSA-2017:1537
OpenStack 8.0 Director for RHEL 7Fixed RHSA-2017:1546
OpenStack 9.0 Director for RHEL 7Fixed RHSA-2017:1504
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0Fixed RHSA-2017:1242
Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata)

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2017-2637
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-w8fq-h7pg-632c

References

Advisory 7

  • TI-2016-05707 Oracle MySQL through 5.5.52, 5.6.x through 5.6.33, and 5.7.x through 5.7.15; MariaDB… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2018-07980 Memory Corruption was discovered in the cmsgpack library in the Lua subsystem in Redis… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2020-07599 Apache HTTP Server versions 2.4.20 to 2.4.43. CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2019-06950 Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a settings flood, potentially leading to a… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2018-15768 Memcached version 1.5.5 contains an Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume… CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2019-06949 Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a reset flood, potentially leading to a… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
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Sources

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