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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-16613

This allows attackers to bypass authentication by inserting a token into an X-Auth-Token header of a new request.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 8.42%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (8.42%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in middleware.py in OpenStack Swauth through 1.2.0 when used with OpenStack Swift through 2.15.1. The Swift object store and proxy server are saving (unhashed) tokens retrieved from the Swauth middleware authentication mechanism to a log file as part of a GET URI. This allows attackers to bypass authentication by inserting a token into an X-Auth-Token header of a new request. NOTE: github.com/openstack/swauth URLs do not mean that Swauth is maintained by an official OpenStack project team.

CVSS 3.0
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
8.42% probability · 95th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-287
Affected
openstack/swauth · openstack/swift · debian/debian linux
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.