Race Condition Affecting openstack-neutron-ml2 package, versions <0:2015.1.4-16.1.el7ost


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-OPENSTACKNEUTRONML2-5109392
  • published27 Mar 2023
  • disclosed8 Aug 2017

Introduced: 8 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-7543  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 openstack-neutron-ml2 to version 0:2015.1.4-16.1.el7ost or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:2450.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openstack-neutron-ml2 package and not the openstack-neutron-ml2 package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.