CVE-2017-12155 — tripleo-heat-templates
MEDIUMCVE-2017-12155 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.3) Missing Authentication vulnerability in tripleo-heat-templates. A fix is available for tripleo-heat-templates — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Openstack tripleo-heat-templates unauthenticated file access
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2017-12155 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 378,567 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
tripleo-heat-templatesReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects PyPI packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
A resource-permission flaw was found in the tripleo-heat-templates package where ceph.client.openstack.keyring is created as world-readable. A local attacker with access to the key could read or modify data on Ceph cluster pools for OpenStack as though the attacker were the OpenStack service, thus potentially reading or modifying data in an OpenStack Block Storage volume. This has been patched in versions 7.0.6 and 8.0.0.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐍PyPI | tripleo-heat-templates | all versions | 7.0.6pip install --upgrade 'tripleo-heat-templates==7.0.6' |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for tripleo-heat-templates, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update tripleo-heat-templates to 7.0.6 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2017-12155 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like CVE-2017-12155 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to CVE-2017-12155. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton) | openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-0:5.3.10-1.el7ost | RHSA-2018:1593 |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata) | openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-0:6.2.12-2.el7ost | RHSA-2018:1627 |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (Pike) | openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-0:7.0.9-8.el7ost | RHSA-2018:0602 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2017-12155 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds CVE-2017-12155 across PyPI dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.