CVE-2017-7543 MEDIUM

CVE-2017-7543

Vendor Red Hat
Product openstack-neutron
Weakness CWE-362
Published July 26, 2018
Last update August 5, 2024

CVSS base score

5.3/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A race-condition flaw was discovered in openstack-neutron before 7.2.0-12.1, 8.x before 8.3.0-11.1, 9.x before 9.3.1-2.1, and 10.x before 10.0.2-1.1, where, following a minor overcloud update, neutron security groups were disabled. Specifically, the following were reset to 0: net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables and net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables. The race was only triggered by an update, at which point an attacker could access exposed tenant VMs and network resources.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 26, 2018 CVE published
August 5, 2024 Record updated