Openstack PlatformApplication · Redhat
CVE-2023-6725
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedAn access-control flaw was found in the OpenStack Designate component where private configuration information including access keys to BIND were improperly made world readable. A malicious attacker with access to any container could exploit this flaw to access sensitive information.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceOpenStack Designate contains an access control misconfiguration where private configuration files (including BIND DNS server access keys) were set with world-readable permissions. Any container compromise on the host would allow extraction of these sensitive credentials.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Openstack PlatformApplication
= 17.1CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify OpenStack deployment versionCheck the installed Red Hat OpenStack Platform version by running 'cat /etc/rhosp-version' or 'openstack version show' if availableAffected if Version is 17.1 - this version contains the vulnerable Designate configuration
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Locate Designate configuration directorySearch for Designate config files in common locations: 'ls -la /etc/designate/' or 'find /etc -name "designate*" -type d'Affected if Designate configuration directory exists on the system
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Check permissions on Designate config filesRun 'ls -la /etc/designate/' and examine the permission strings (first column) for each fileAffected if Any configuration files show permissions like '-rw-r--r--' (644) or '-rw-r--r--' (644), indicating world-readable access
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Verify sensitive credential files are exposedLook for files named like 'bind.*', 'keys*', 'secret*', or 'password*' within the Designate config directory and check their permissions with 'ls -la'Affected if Sensitive files containing BIND keys or credentials have world-readable (644) or group-readable (640) permissions rather than owner-only (600)
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Check container orchestration file permissionsIf Designate runs in containers, examine the host filesystem paths mounted into containers for config files and verify their permissionsAffected if Mounted config directories contain world-readable files that would be accessible to a compromised container
A system is affected if it runs Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 with Designate installed and has any configuration files in /etc/designate/ with permissions allowing read access by non-owner users (anyone).
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataRestrict file permissions on Designate configuration files to owner-only read access (chmod 600), ensuring BIND keys and other secrets are not globally readable. Audit all Designate config directories for improper permissions.
Fix this in Openstack Platform
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Review / QA2.0 h
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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