Details

Openstack services communicate with each other using various protocols and the communication might involve sensitive/confidential information. An attacker may try to eavesdrop on the channel in order to get access to sensitive information. Thus all the services must communicate with each other using a secured communication protocol like HTTPS.

Solution

Set the value of parameter USE_SSL in /etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings.py to True

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• http://docs.openstack.org/security-guide/dashboard/checklist.html

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: System and Communications Protection.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|SC-8(1)

Source

• Tenable.com/audits