Bug 1424892

Summary: Password written in clear text in heat-api.log with DEBUG mode [openstack-rdo]
Product: [Community] RDO Reporter: Summer Long <slong>
Component: openstack-heatAssignee: Amit Ugol <augol>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Amit Ugol <augol>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: augol, chris.brown, jpeeler, mburns, rhel-osp-director-maint, sbaker, shardy, srevivo, zbitter
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Last Closed: 2017-08-14 13:51:37 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Summer Long 2017-02-20 02:52:20 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1424879 +++

Description of problem:
Reported by Hans Feldt, Ericsson

Password written in clear text in heat-api.log with DEBUG mode
Because this is debug, it is a hardening issue; no CVE is attached.

Upstream bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat/+bug/1664792

Affected code:
heat/common/serializers.py:
 31 class JSONResponseSerializer(object):
 32
 33 def to_json(self, data):
 34 def sanitizer(obj):
 35 if isinstance(obj, datetime.datetime):
 36 return obj.isoformat()
 37 return six.text_type(obj)
 38
 39 response = jsonutils.dumps(data, default=sanitizer)
 40 LOG.debug("JSON response : %s" % response) # <- HERE

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Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create overcloud
2. View /var/log/heat/heat-api.log
3. Grep for AdminPassword

Actual results:
Plain text is used for passwords

Expected results:
Plain text should never be used for passwords

Comment 1 Zane Bitter 2017-03-16 14:29:51 UTC
Fix merged upstream.