Bug 1296837 (CVE-2015-8749)

Summary:	CVE-2015-8749 openstack-nova: Xen connection password leak in logs via StorageError
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	abaron, akscram, alexander.sakhnov, aortega, apevec, apevec, ayoung, berrange, bfilippov, chrisw, dallan, dasmith, davidx, eglynn, gkotton, itamar, jjoyce, jonathansteffan, jose.castro.leon, jschluet, kbasil, kchamart, lhh, lpeer, markmc, mburns, mlvov, mmagr, ndipanov, nova-maint, rbryant, rk, sbauza, sclewis, sferdjao, sgordon, slinaber, slong, tdecacqu, vladanovic, vromanso, yeylon
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Bug Depends On:	1296838, 1296839
Bug Blocks:	1296840

Description Martin Prpič 2016-01-08 08:55:23 UTC

Title: Xen connection password leak in logs via StorageError

Reporter: Matt Riedemann (IBM)
Products: Nova
Affects: >= 2014.2 <= 2015.1.2, ==12.0.0

Description:

Matt Riedemann from IBM reported an information disclosure vulnerability
in Nova. If a StorageError occurs when attempting to connect a volume
using the Xen API, the connection parameters will be logged. These
parameters may include credentials that are not masked. An attacker
with read access to Nova logs could use these credentials with the
Xen API directly. Only Nova deployments using the Xen backend are
affected by this flaw.

References:

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1516765
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/42

Comment 2 Martin Prpič 2016-01-08 08:56:47 UTC

Created openstack-nova tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1296839]

Comment 3 Summer Long 2016-01-20 00:05:14 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform does not support the Xen hypervisor, and is therefore not affected by this flaw in any supported configuration.