Bug 1696400 (CVE-2019-3893)

Summary:	CVE-2019-3893 foreman: Recover of plaintext password or token for the compute resources
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bbuckingham, bcourt, bkearney, btotty, chris.snell, hhudgeon, mmccune, rchan, rjerrido, security-response-team, yjog
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	foreman 1.20.3, foreman 1.21.1, foreman 1.22.0	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	It was discovered that the delete compute resource operation, when executed from the Foreman API, leads to the disclosure of the plaintext password or token for the affected compute resource. A malicious user with the "delete_compute_resource" permission can use this flaw to take control over compute resources managed by foreman.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2020-04-21 11:54:15 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1692644
Bug Blocks:	1693171

Description Pedro Sampaio 2019-04-04 18:51:45 UTC

A flaw was found in Foreman. The issue allows an identified user with "delete compute resource" permission to recover plaintext password or token for the compute resource.

Upstream issue:

https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/26450

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/6621

References:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1692644

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2019-04-04 18:51:48 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: Vatsal Parekh (Red Hat)

Comment 5 Richard Maciel Costa 2019-04-09 02:43:04 UTC

Mitigation:

Do not grant the "destroy_compute_resource" permission to users that should not know the password.

Comment 8 Yadnyawalk Tale 2020-04-21 11:54:15 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 6.6 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2019:3172 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3172