Bug 1325934 (CVE-2016-3108)

Summary: CVE-2016-3108 pulp: Insecure temporary file used when generating certificate for Pulp Nodes
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: bkearney, bmbouter, cbillett, daviddavis, dkliban, ggainey, ipanova, jcline, jmatthew, mhrivnak, mmccune, ohadlevy, pcreech, rbarlow, rchan, sean.myers, security-response-team, tjay, tlestach, tsanders, ttereshc
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OS: Linux   
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It was found that the private key for the node certificate was contained in a world-readable temporary file. A local user could possibly use this flaw to gain access to the private key information in the temporary file.
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Last Closed: 2016-09-19 19:02:46 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1326913, 1326919    
Bug Blocks: 1325942    
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-04-11 12:53:28 UTC 
It was reported that pulp-gen-nodes-certificate script uses insecurely created temporary files for storing the generated node certificates, allowing local attackers to leak the keys or overwrite arbitrary file via symlink.
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-04-11 12:53:37 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Jeremy Cline (Red Hat), Sander Bos
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-04-11 12:54:14 UTC 
Created attachment 1145990 [details]
Proposed patch
Comment 3 Randy Barlow 2016-04-12 14:32:48 UTC 
Created attachment 1146475 [details]
Proposed patch

I am attaching a revised version of the patch that removes the unneeded umask statement, and credits jcline in the commit message.
Comment 4 Randy Barlow 2016-04-13 16:52:53 UTC 
This is reported upstream as #1830 and is fixed by PR #2528:

https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1830
https://github.com/pulp/pulp/pull/2528
Comment 7 pulp-infra@redhat.com 2016-04-13 19:57:29 UTC 
The Pulp upstream bug status is at CLOSED - WORKSFORME. Updating the external tracker on this bug.
Comment 8 pulp-infra@redhat.com 2016-04-13 19:57:35 UTC 
The Pulp upstream bug priority is at Low. Updating the external tracker on this bug.
Comment 9 Kurt Seifried 2016-09-19 19:02:46 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 6.2

Via RHSA-2016:1501