USN-1033-1: Eucalyptus vulnerability

16 December 2010

Unauthenticated users could reset passwords without email confirmation.

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Releases

Packages

  • eucalyptus - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture

Details

It was discovered that Eucalyptus did not verify password resets from
the Admin UI correctly. An unauthenticated remote attacker could issue
password reset requests to gain admin privileges in the Eucalyptus
environment.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 10.10

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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