[Secure-testing-team] Bug#872605: aodh: CVE-2017-12440

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: aodh
Version: 3.0.0-4
Severity: important
Tags: upstream security

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for aodh.

CVE-2017-12440[0]:
| 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.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12440
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12440
[1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OSSN/OSSN-0080

Regards,
Salvatore