Bug 1376630

Summary:	IDM admin password gets written to /root/.dogtag/pki-tomcat/ca/pkcs12_password.conf
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Fraser Tweedale <ftweedal>
Component:	ipa	Assignee:	IPA Maintainers <ipa-maint>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde>
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Version:	7.3	CC:	akasurde, pvoborni, rcritten, sumenon
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Description Fraser Tweedale 2016-09-16 00:49:32 UTC

Description of problem:

IDM admin password gets written to /root/.dogtag/pki-tomcat/ca/pkcs12_password.conf during installation.  This file contains the passphrase for a backup of the Dogtag CA Agent certificate and key in
/root/ca-agent.p12.

The file is well protected by file system permissions but if it is
compromised we do not want the actor to get full control over IDM.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install IPA


Actual results:

The admin user's password appears in file /root/.dogtag/pki-tomcat/ca/pkcs12_password.conf


Expected results:

The admin user's password should not appear in the file.  If an actor gets access to the file, we do not want that actor to pivot to having full
control over IDM.


Additional info:

Proposed fix: randomly generate the password for this backup file.

Comment 2 Petr Vobornik 2017-02-23 13:55:24 UTC

Fixed upstream
master:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/changeset/728a6bd4229ba170b2e94f216127b19d5d94e2ba
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/changeset/a39effed7603d66acd238e3142f4df8081ff7bc8

Comment 4 Abhijeet Kasurde 2017-05-25 09:38:53 UTC

Verified using IPA server version:: ipa-server-4.5.0-13.el7.x86_64


After successful installation no pkcs12_password.conf file found on system.

[root@ipaserver01 ~]# locate pkcs12_password.conf
[root@ipaserver01 ~]# ls /root/.dogtag/pki-tomcat/ca/pkcs12_password.conf
ls: cannot access /root/.dogtag/pki-tomcat/ca/pkcs12_password.conf: No such file or directory

Marking BZ as verified.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 09:39:54 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:2304