Bug 1497971 (CVE-2017-14955)

Summary:	CVE-2017-14955 check-mk: Mishandles certain errors within the failed-login save feature because of a race condition
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	andrea.veri, sisharma, ssaha, vbellur
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	check-mk 1.2.8p26	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 03:26:25 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1497972, 1497973
Bug Blocks:	1497974

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-03 09:17:58 UTC

Check_MK before 1.2.8p26 mishandles certain errors within the failed-login save feature because of a race condition, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive user information by reading a GUI crash report.

External References:

https://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk_werks.php?werk_id=5208

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-03 09:18:19 UTC

Created check-mk tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1497972]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1497973]

Comment 2 Siddharth Sharma 2017-10-04 04:30:46 UTC

Upstream Fix:

http://git.mathias-kettner.de/git/?p=check_mk.git;a=patch;h=a4a2cc1f30ff6032899ca80eed29fa26b8898c54

Comment 3 Siddharth Sharma 2017-10-04 04:37:04 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat Gluster Storage 3 is not affected because affected code is not shipped in the product. Affected code is present in check-mk-multisite rpm which is not shipped in this product.