Bug 1727770 (CVE-2019-13314)

Summary: CVE-2019-13314 virt-bootstrap: allows local users to discover root password via process listing
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
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A password disclosure flaw was found in virt-bootstrap, version 1.1.0. Because virt-bootstrap accepts root password as a command line argument via --root-password option, the password could leak to other system users via process listing.
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Bug Depends On: 1727771    
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-07-08 06:50:42 UTC 
virt-bootstrap 1.1.0 allows local users to discover a root password by listing a process, because this password may be present in the --root-password option to virt_bootstrap.py.

Reference:
https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-bootstrap/releases
https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2019-July/msg00043.html
Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-07-08 06:50:53 UTC 
Created virt-bootstrap tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1727771]
Comment 2 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-07-08 07:50:50 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Fabiano Fidêncio (Red Hat)
Comment 3 Prasad Pandit 2019-07-09 05:00:54 UTC 
External References:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/08/3
Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-07-12 13:08:27 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.