CVE-2017-7543
mediumpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.018 · 79 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
A race-condition flaw was discovered in openstack-neutron before 7.2.0-12.1, 8.x before 8.3.0-11.1, 9.x before 9.3.1-2.1, and 10.x before 10.0.2-1.1, where, following a minor overcloud update, neutron security groups were disabled. Specifically, the following were reset to 0: net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables and net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables. The race was only triggered by an update, at which point an attacker could access exposed tenant VMs and network resources.
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affected products (18)
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advisories (2)
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- GHSA-hvxr-2fvv-c3wqOpenStack Neutron Race Condition vulnerability2022-05-13ghsa · osvUS
A race-condition flaw was discovered in openstack-neutron before 7.2.0-12.1, 8.x before 8.3.0-11.1, 9.x before 9.3.1-2.1, and 10.x before 10.0.2-1.1, where, following a minor overcloud update, neutron security groups were disabled. Specifically, the following were reset to 0: net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables and net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables. The race was only triggered by an update, at which point an attacker could access exposed tenant VMs and network resources.
- PYSEC-2026-686OpenStack Neutron Race Condition vulnerability2026-07-02vendor · osvUS
A race-condition flaw was discovered in openstack-neutron before 7.2.0-12.1, 8.x before 8.3.0-11.1, 9.x before 9.3.1-2.1, and 10.x before 10.0.2-1.1, where, following a minor overcloud update, neutron security groups were disabled. Specifically, the following were reset to 0: net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables and net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables. The race was only triggered by an update, at which point an attacker could access exposed tenant VMs and network resources.
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references (26)
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- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2447cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2448cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2449cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2450cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2451cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2452cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7543cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1473792cnnvd
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