Description
OpenStack Heat Templates (heat-templates), as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, sets gpgcheck to 0 for certain templates, which disables GPG signature checking on downloaded packages and allows man-in-the-middle attackers to install arbitrary packages via unspecified vectors.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat-templates/+bug/1267635
Exploit, Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/openstack/heat-templates/commit/65a4f8bebc72da71c616e2e378b7b1ac354db1a3
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059520
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0579.html
Scores
EPSS
0.0147
EPSS Percentile
70.9%
Details
CWE
CWE-310
Status
published
Products (1)
redhat/openstack
4.0
Published
Jun 02, 2014
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026