Vulnerability in aodh (CVE-2017-12440)
Summary
Vulnerability in aodh (CVE-2017-12440). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.0.1 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-12440 has been found in aodh.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. CVSS score: 7.5/10.
What to do: upgrade aodh to 6.0.1 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "aodh CVE-2017-12440" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2017-12440 (aodh) — CWE-306 / CVSS v3 7.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Patched: 6.0.1 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-306) exists in aodh.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of aodh.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.5/10). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to 6.0.1.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'aodh' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'aodh' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
aodhを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade aodh to 6.0.1ステージング環境で 6.0.1 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2017-12440 aodh Fixed in: 5.0.0-2
References
- advisory debian.org
- advisory securityfocus.com
- advisory access.redhat.com
- advisory access.redhat.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory github.com
- package pypi.org
- patch bugs.launchpad.net
- patch review.openstack.org
- patch review.openstack.org
- patch review.openstack.org
- web github.com
- web github.com
- web review.openstack.org
- web review.openstack.org
- web review.openstack.org