Bug 1363670 (CVE-2013-7458)

Summary:	CVE-2013-7458 redis: world-readable ~/.rediscli_history
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	aortega, apevec, ayoung, chrisw, cvsbot-xmlrpc, fabian.deutsch, fpercoco, i, jal233, jschluet, kbasil, lhh, lpeer, markmc, msamia, rbryant, rhos-maint, sclewis, slong, tdecacqu
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A permissions flaw was found in Redis, where redis-cli stores its history in ~/.rediscli_history. The file is created with permissions 0644, which could lead to the exposure of sensitive data for users with world-readable home directories.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1363671, 1363672
Bug Blocks:	1363674

Description Martin Prpič 2016-08-03 10:37:50 UTC

redis-cli stores its history in ~/.rediscli_history, this file is created with permissions 0644, which could lead to exposure of sensitive data if for users with world readable home directories.

CVE request:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/180

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/3284

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2016-08-03 10:38:29 UTC

Created redis tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1363671]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1363672]

Comment 2 Summer Long 2016-08-12 04:26:49 UTC

Fixed upstream in Redis 3.2.3     Released Tue Aug 02 10:55:24 CEST 2016
http://download.redis.io/redis-stable/00-RELEASENOTES

Redis-cli created the history file with insecure permissions, allowing reading from the file. This was actually a bug in linenoise which is now fixed. The applied fix is from Chris Lamb.

Comment 5 Andrej Nemec 2018-05-09 15:37:27 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Low.
Further, home directories are not world readable on RHEL distributions (by default). This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future
updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity
Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.