CVE-2017-12440

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-08-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-306

Description

Aodh as packaged in Openstack Ocata and Newton before change-ID I8fd11a7f9fe3c0ea5f9843a89686ac06713b7851 and before Pike-rc1 does not verify that trust IDs belong to the user when creating alarm action with the scheme trust+http, which allows remote authenticated users with knowledge of trust IDs where Aodh is the trustee to obtain a Keystone token and perform unspecified authenticated actions by adding an alarm action with the scheme trust+http, and providing a trust id where Aodh is the trustee.

Affected products

Openstack: 07132017

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3953
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100455
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3227
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0315
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossn/+bug/1649333
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/493823/
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/493824/
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/493826/
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3953
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100455
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3227
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0315

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