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Placeholder for 12319 - this advisory has not been released yet.
Title:      EGI SVG Advisory [TLP:WHITE] 'MODERATE' risk ARC 5.2.1 World Writeable log directory  [EGI-SVG-2017-12319] 
Date:        2017-08-07
Updated:   
 
 
Affected software and risk
==========================
 
MODERATE risk vulnerability concerning ARC
 
Package : ARC
CVE ID  : N/A
Bug ID  :
 
A world writeable log directory was introduced in ARC 5.2.1.
 
 
Actions required/recommended
============================
 
Sites running ARC 5.2.1 are recommended to update to ARC 5.2.2 as soon as is convenient.
 
Affected software details
=========================
 
This vulnerability was introduced in ARC 5.2.1.  It is only present in this version.
 
Mitigation
==========
 
Likely configurations at sites make it difficult to exploit.
 
Component installation information
==================================
 
The official repository for the distribution of grid middleware for EGI sites is
repository.egi.eu which contains the EGI Unified Middleware Distribution (UMD.
 
Sites using the EGI UMD 4 should see:
 
http://repository.egi.eu/category/umd_releases/distribution/umd-4/
 
Sites using the EGI UMD 3 should see:
 
http://repository.egi.eu/category/umd_releases/distribution/umd-3/
 
Note that an older version of ARC which does not contain this vulnerability is in UMD 3
 
 
TLP and URL
===========
 
** WHITE information - Unlimited distribution - see
 
https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_CSIRT:TLP for distribution restrictions***   
 
URL:  https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/SVG:Advisory-SVG-2017-12319
 
 
Comments
========
 
Comments or questions should be sent to svg-rat  at  mailman.egi.eu
 
If you find or become aware of a vulnerability which is relevant to EGI you may report it by e-mail to 
 
report-vulnerability at egi.eu
the EGI Software Vulnerability Group will take a look according to the procedure defined in [R 1] 
 
 
References
==========
 
[R 1] https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=2538
 
Credit
======
 
This vulnerability was reported by Ulf Tigerstedt
 
 
Timeline 
========
Yyyy-mm-dd  [EGI-SVG-2017-12319]
 
2017-01-24 Vulnerability reported by Ulf Tigerstedt
2017-01-25 Acknowledgement from the EGI SVG to the reporter
2017-01-25 Software providers responded and involved in investigation
2017-01-25 Investigation of vulnerability and relevance to EGI carried out by
2017-02-15 EGI SVG Risk Assessment completed
2017-02-15 Assessment by the EGI Software Vulnerability Group reported to the software providers
2017-02-15 Software updated by software providers
2017-04-04 Updated packages available in the EGI UMD
2017-08-07 Advisory on public wiki
 
 
Context
=======
 
This advisory has been prepared as part of the effort to fulfil EGI SVG's purpose
"To minimize the risk to the EGI infrastructure arising from software vulnerabilities"
 
The risk is that assessed by the group, according to the EGI SVG issue handling
procedure [R 1]  in the context of how the software is used in the EGI infrastructure.
 
It is the opinion of the group, we do not guarantee it to be correct. The risk may also
be higher or lower in other deployments depending on how the software is used. 
 
Others may re-use this information provided they:-
 
1) Respect the provided TLP classification
 
2) Credit the EGI https://www.egi.eu/ Software Vulnerability Group
 
 
On behalf of the EGI SVG,
 
 


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Advisory-SVG-2017-12319



Title:      EGI SVG Advisory [TLP:WHITE] 'MODERATE' risk ARC 5.2.1 World Writeable log directory  [EGI-SVG-2017-12319]  
Date:        2017-08-07
Updated:     


Affected software and risk
==========================

MODERATE risk vulnerability concerning ARC

Package : ARC
CVE ID  : N/A
Bug ID  :

A world writeable log directory was introduced in ARC 5.2.1. 


Actions required/recommended
============================

Sites running ARC 5.2.1 are recommended to update to ARC 5.2.2 as soon as is convenient. 

Affected software details
=========================

This vulnerability was introduced in ARC 5.2.1.  It is only present in this version.

Mitigation
==========

Likely configurations at sites make it difficult to exploit. 

Component installation information
==================================

The official repository for the distribution of grid middleware for EGI sites is 
repository.egi.eu which contains the EGI Unified Middleware Distribution (UMD.
 

Sites using the EGI UMD 4 should see:

http://repository.egi.eu/category/umd_releases/distribution/umd-4/

Sites using the EGI UMD 3 should see:

http://repository.egi.eu/category/umd_releases/distribution/umd-3/

Note that an older version of ARC which does not contain this vulnerability is in UMD 3


TLP and URL
===========

** WHITE information - Unlimited distribution - see 

https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_CSIRT:TLP for distribution restrictions***     

URL:   https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/SVG:Advisory-SVG-2017-12319  
  

Comments
========

Comments or questions should be sent to svg-rat  at  mailman.egi.eu

If you find or become aware of a vulnerability which is relevant to EGI you may report it by e-mail to  

report-vulnerability at egi.eu
 
the EGI Software Vulnerability Group will take a look according to the procedure defined in [R 1]  


References
==========

[R 1] https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=2538

Credit
======

This vulnerability was reported by Ulf Tigerstedt 


Timeline  
========
Yyyy-mm-dd  [EGI-SVG-2017-12319] 

2017-01-24 Vulnerability reported by Ulf Tigerstedt 
2017-01-25 Acknowledgement from the EGI SVG to the reporter
2017-01-25 Software providers responded and involved in investigation
2017-01-25 Investigation of vulnerability and relevance to EGI carried out by 
2017-02-15 EGI SVG Risk Assessment completed
2017-02-15 Assessment by the EGI Software Vulnerability Group reported to the software providers 
2017-02-15 Software updated by software providers 
2017-04-04 Updated packages available in the EGI UMD
2017-08-07 Advisory on public wiki


Context
=======

This advisory has been prepared as part of the effort to fulfil EGI SVG's purpose 
"To minimize the risk to the EGI infrastructure arising from software vulnerabilities"

The risk is that assessed by the group, according to the EGI SVG issue handling 
procedure [R 1]  in the context of how the software is used in the EGI infrastructure. 

It is the opinion of the group, we do not guarantee it to be correct. The risk may also 
be higher or lower in other deployments depending on how the software is used.   

Others may re-use this information provided they:-

1) Respect the provided TLP classification

2) Credit the EGI https://www.egi.eu/ Software Vulnerability Group


On behalf of the EGI SVG,