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PYSEC-2026-851

OpenStack Neutron Improper Authentication vulnerability

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-851 — neutron: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'neutron>=2013.2.3'

Details

The l3-agent in OpenStack Neutron 2012.2 before 2013.2.3 does not check the tenant id when creating ports, which allows remote authenticated users to plug ports into the routers of arbitrary tenants via the device id in a port-create command.

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Affected packages

PyPI/neutron

Introduced in: 2012.2Fixed in: 2013.2.3

Fixpip install --upgrade 'neutron>=2013.2.3'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0056[ADVISORY]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0516[WEB]
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0056[WEB]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1243327[WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1063141[WEB]
https://opendev.org/openstack/neutron[PACKAGE]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0516.html[WEB]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/27/5[WEB]
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2194-1[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/neutron[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-72p9-6gc7-q93r[ADVISORY]