OSSA-2017-005: Nova Filter Scheduler bypass through rebuild action

Date:

November 14, 2017

CVE:

CVE-2017-16239

Affects

  • Nova: <=14.0.10, >=15.0.0 <=15.0.8, >=16.0.0 <=16.0.3

Description

George Shuklin from servers.com reported a vulnerability in Nova. By rebuilding an instance, an authenticated user may be able to circumvent the Filter Scheduler bypassing imposed filters (for example, the ImagePropertiesFilter or the IsolatedHostsFilter). All setups using Nova Filter Scheduler are affected.

Errata

The former fix introduced regressions in the rebuild functionality. Rebuild may fail depending on configured scheduler filters and environment, for example, when the compute host is running at capacity or when the host is disabled. This update provides an additional set of fixes for these regressions.

Patches

Credits

  • George Shuklin from Servers.com (CVE-2017-16239)

References

OSSA History

  • 2017-12-05 - Errata 1

  • 2017-11-14 - Original Version