Arbitrary Package Installation Vulnerability in OpenStack Heat Templates

CVE-2014-0042 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

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