Bug 1726232 (CVE-2019-10183)

Summary:	CVE-2019-10183 virt-install: unattended option leaks password via command line argument
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Prasad Pandit <ppandit>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	berrange, crobinso, fidencio, philip.wyett, phrdina, security-response-team, virt-mgr-maint
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	The virt-install utility used to provision new virtual machines, in virt-manager v2.2.0, has introduced an option '--unattended' to create VMs without user interaction. This option accepts guest VM password as command line arguments. An attacker could obtain these passwords though process listings on the system.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1726535, 1726536
Bug Blocks:	1726225

Description Prasad Pandit 2019-07-02 11:40:49 UTC

Virt-install(1) utility used to provision new virtual machines has introduced an option
'--unattended' to create VMs without user interaction. This option accepts guest VM
password as command line arguments. Thus leaking them to others users on the system
via process listing. It was introduced recently in the virt-manager v2.2.0 release.

Upstream patch:
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  -> https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2019-July/msg00014.html

Reference:
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  -> https://virt-manager.org/download/
  -> https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/03/1

Comment 2 Prasad Pandit 2019-07-02 12:28:59 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: Daniel P. Berrangé (Red Hat Inc.)

Comment 3 Prasad Pandit 2019-07-03 06:45:20 UTC

Created virt-manager tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1726536]

Comment 5 Prasad Pandit 2019-07-03 11:32:49 UTC

External References:

https://virt-manager.org/download/
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/03/1

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 20:58:00 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2019:3464 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3464

Comment 7 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-11-06 00:52:53 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-10183