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CVE-2014-0188

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The openshift-origin-broker in Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.0.5, 1.2.7, and earlier does not properly handle authentication requests from the remote-user auth plugin, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and impersonate arbitrary users via the X-Remote-User header in a request to a passthrough trigger.

Affected products

• Openshift: through 1.2.7; from 2.0 through 2.0.5

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0422.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0423.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090120
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0422.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0423.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090120

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