CVE-2017-1000433: Known moderate severity security vulnerability detected in pysaml2 <= 4.5.0

Bug #1791835 reported by Ken Young
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
StarlingX
Won't Fix
Low
Ken Young

Bug Description

Title
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CVE-2017-1000433: GitHub Scans Reveals Potential CVE with pysaml2

Brief Description
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Automated github scanning of the starling x keystone package based on OpenStack Pike release. Specifically, the notification stated:

We found a potential security vulnerability in a repository for which you have been granted security alert access.

@starlingx-staging starlingx-staging/stx-keystone

Known moderate severity security vulnerability detected in pysaml2 <= 4.5.0 defined in requirements.txt.

Severity
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Provide the severity of the defect.
<Minor: System/Feature is usable with minor issue>

Steps to Reproduce
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Expected Behavior
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Actual Behavior
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Reproducibility
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System Configuration
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This potential issue affects keystone so all configurations may be impacted.

Branch/Pull Time/Commit
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Master

Timestamp/Logs
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Tags: stx.security

CVE References

Revision history for this message
Ken Young (kenyis) wrote :

This is regarding CVE-2017-1000433 which has a base score of 6.8 and a very low impact:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000433

Red Hat has decided not to fix this:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-1000433

Although the affected code is present in shipped packages, python-pysaml2 is included only as a dependency of other packages. The affected code cannot be reached in any supported configuration of Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

Ken Young (kenyis)
information type: Private → Private Security
Ken Young (kenyis)
Changed in starlingx:
status: New → Won't Fix
importance: Undecided → Low
Ken Young (kenyis)
information type: Private Security → Public Security
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