Bug 1745637 (CVE-2019-1552)

Summary:	CVE-2019-1552 openssl: Insecure path defaults vulnerability in mingw builds
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	apmukher, asoldano, bbaranow, bmaxwell, brian.stansberry, cdewolf, cfergeau, chazlett, csutherl, darran.lofthouse, dosoudil, erik-fedora, fidencio, gzaronik, iweiss, jawilson, jclere, jorton, jperkins, krathod, kwills, lgao, marcandre.lureau, mbabacek, msochure, msvehla, mturk, myarboro, nwallace, pmackay, psotirop, rguimara, rh-spice-bugs, rjones, rsvoboda, smaestri, tom.jenkinson, twalsh, weli
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	OpenSSL 1.1.1d, OpenSSL 1.1.0l, OpenSSL 1.0.2t	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On:	1745640, 1745650, 1745651, 1746041, 1746042, 1803847
Bug Blocks:	1745641

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-08-26 14:33:50 UTC

OpenSSL has internal defaults for a directory tree where it can find a configuration file as well as certificates used for verification in TLS. This directory is most commonly referred to as OPENSSLDIR, and is configurable with the --prefix / --openssldir configuration options. For OpenSSL versions 1.1.0 and 1.1.1, the mingw configuration targets assume that resulting programs and libraries are installed in a Unix-like environment and the default prefix for program installation as well as for OPENSSLDIR should be '/usr/local'. However, mingw programs are Windows programs, and as such, find themselves looking at sub-directories of 'C:/usr/local', which may be world writable, which enables untrusted users to modify OpenSSL's default configuration, insert CA certificates, modify (or even replace) existing engine modules, etc. For OpenSSL 1.0.2, '/usr/local/ssl' is used as default for OPENSSLDIR on all Unix and Windows targets, including Visual C builds. However, some build instructions for the diverse Windows targets on 1.0.2 encourage you to specify your own --prefix. OpenSSL versions 1.1.1, 1.1.0 and 1.0.2 are affected by this issue. Due to the limited scope of affected deployments this has been assessed as low severity and therefore we are not creating new releases at this time.

Upstream commit:
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=d333ebaf9c77332754a9d5e111e2f53e1de54fdd
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=54aa9d51b09d67e90db443f682cface795f5af9e
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=b15a19c148384e73338aa7c5b12652138e35ed28
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=e32bc855a81a2d48d215c506bdeb4f598045f7e9

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-08-26 14:35:46 UTC

External References:

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20190730.txt

Comment 2 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-08-26 15:00:54 UTC

Created openssl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1745650]

Comment 3 msiddiqu 2019-08-26 15:01:00 UTC

Created openssl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1745651]

Comment 4 Tomas Mraz 2019-08-26 15:47:05 UTC

This does NOT affect openssl. Only mingw-openssl.

Comment 5 Joshua Padman 2019-08-27 10:58:28 UTC

This vulnerability is out of security support scope for the following products:
 * Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform 5
 * Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform 6
 * Red Hat JBoss Core Services
 * Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2
 * Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 

Please refer to https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/jboss_notes for more details.

However, all middleware products include openssl and this flaw only affects mingw-openssl.

Comment 6 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-08-27 14:25:28 UTC

Created mingw-openssl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1746042]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1746041]

Comment 9 Marco Benatto 2020-02-17 15:33:25 UTC

Statement:

This issue only affects mingw-openssl builds, which are not shipped with any version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.