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.
CVE-2017-12440
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.6%, top 30% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 79.8%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 18, 2017
Last Modified
May 13, 2026
References (16)
- cve@mitrehttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3953
- cve@mitrehttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100455
- cve@mitrehttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3227
- cve@mitrehttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0315
- cve@mitrehttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ossn/+bug/1649333
- cve@mitrehttps://review.openstack.org/#/c/493823/
- cve@mitrehttps://review.openstack.org/#/c/493824/
- cve@mitrehttps://review.openstack.org/#/c/493826/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3953
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100455
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3227
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0315
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossn/+bug/1649333
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://review.openstack.org/#/c/493823/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://review.openstack.org/#/c/493824/
Patch Availability(2)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | openstack-aodh-0:4.0.2-3.el7ost | 2018-02-13 | redhat |
| redhat | openstack-aodh-0:3.0.4-1.el7ost | 2017-11-15 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
PyPI(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| aodh | 0.0.1.dev4004 ... 6.0.0 (32 versions) | 6.0.1 | — |
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