Auth bypass in Red Hat Openshift

CVE-2014-0188

The openshift-origin-broker in Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.0.5, 1.2.7, and earlier does not properly handle authentication requests from the remote-user auth plugin, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and impersonate arbitrary users via the X-Remote-User header in a request to a passthrough trigger.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.017 (74.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Redhat Openshift
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)