Summary
Full administrative access to the Azure Red Hat Enterprise Linux Appliance REST API was publicly exposed.
It allowed malicious actors uploading packages that would be acquired by client virtual machines on their next yum update.
The vulnerable infrastructure supplies all the packages for all Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances booted from the Azure marketplace.
Affected Services
N/A
Remediation
None required
Tracked CVEs
No tracked CVEs
References
Contributed by https://github.com/0xdabbad00
Entry Status
Finalized
Disclosure Date
Sat, Nov 26th, 2016
Exploitablity Period
-
Known ITW Exploitation
-
Detection Methods
-
Piercing Index Rating
-
Discovered by
Ian Duffy
