Red Hat Security Advisory 2014-0090-01 - The openstack-heat packages provide heat, a Python implementation of the OpenStack Orchestration engine, to launch multiple composite cloud applications based on templates. It was found that heat did not properly enforce cloudformation-compatible API policy rules. An in-instance attacker could use the CreateStack or UpdateStack methods to create or update a stack, resulting in a violation of the API policy. Note that only setups using Orchestration's cloudformation-compatible API were affected. A flaw was found in the way Orchestration's REST API implementation handled modified request paths. An authenticated remote user could use this flaw to bypass the tenant-scoping restriction by modifying the request path, resulting in privilege escalation. Note that only setups using Orchestration's cloudformation-compatible API were affected.
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