While working another issue, we discovered that support added to
the ironic-conductor process combined the image_download_source
option of "local" with the "force_raw" option resulted in a case
where Ironic had no concept to checksum the files *before* the
conductor process triggered an image format conversion and
then records new checksum values.
In essence, this opened the user requested image file to be
suspetible to a theoretical man-in-the-middle attack OR
the remote server replacing the content with an unknown file,
such as a new major version.
The is at odds with Ironic's security model where we do want to
ensure the end user of ironic is asserting a known checksum for
the image artifact they are deploying, so they are aware of the
present state. Due to the risk, we chose to raise this as a CVE,
as infrastructure operators should likely apply this patch.
As a note, if your *not* forcing all images to be raw format
through the conductor, then this issue is likely not a major
issue for you, but you should still apply the patch.
This is being tracked as CVE-2024-47211.
Closes-Bug: 2076289
Change-Id: Id6185b317aa6e4f4363ee49f77e688701995323a
Signed-off-by: Julia Kreger <juliaashleykreger@gmail.com>
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