** Information type changed from Private Security to Public ** Changed in: ossa Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix
** Tags added: security -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1454074 Title: denial of service via large number of logout page requests Status in OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon): Triaged Status in OpenStack Security Advisory: Won't Fix Bug description: This issue is being treated as a potential security risk under embargo. Please do not make any public mention of embargoed (private) security vulnerabilities before their coordinated publication by the OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team in the form of an official OpenStack Security Advisory. This includes discussion of the bug or associated fixes in public forums such as mailing lists, code review systems and bug trackers. Please also avoid private disclosure to other individuals not already approved for access to this information, and provide this same reminder to those who are made aware of the issue prior to publication. All discussion should remain confined to this private bug report, and any proposed fixes should be added to the bug as attachments. While investigating CVE-2014-8124 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1394370) I think I found another instance of the underlying issue, but with the logout form. I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, with distro-packaged openstack-dashboard 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2. I verified the patch from https://review.openstack.org/140356 is applied to the installed files. I configured horizon to use mysql datastore, and ran the following command: while true ; do wget http://localhost/horizon/auth/logout/ ; done While this command was running I checked the mysql dash database table django_sessions and found it growing without apparent bound: select * from django_session; ... 231 rows in set (0.00 sec) Is this an issue? Thanks To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1454074/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp