Bug 1795592 (CVE-2020-1716)

Summary:	CVE-2020-1716 ceph-ansible: hard coded credential in ceph-ansible playbook
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	contribs, dbecker, gabrioux, gfidente, hvyas, jjoyce, jschluet, kbasil, knortema, ktdreyer, lhh, lpeer, mburns, ramkrsna, sclewis, sisharma, slinaber
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	ceph-ansible 6.0.0alpha1	Doc Type:	Known Issue
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the ceph-ansible playbook where it contained hardcoded passwords that were being used as default passwords while deploying Ceph services. Any authenticated attacker can abuse this flaw to brute-force Ceph deployments, and gain administrator access to Ceph clusters via the Ceph dashboard to initiate read, write, and delete Ceph clusters and also modify Ceph cluster configurations.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2020-05-19 21:15:20 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1795509, 1795602, 1795779, 1813137
Bug Blocks:	1794731

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-01-28 12:14:24 UTC

A vulnerability was found in ceph-ansible, where hard-coded passwords were found in roles/ceph-defaults/defaults/main.yml.

Reference:
https://github.com/ceph/ceph-ansible/blob/bb3eae0c8033dc0ffbee44f490f6ad483bd109b9/roles/ceph-defaults/defaults/main.yml

Comment 6 Siddharth Sharma 2020-01-29 04:06:43 UTC

upstream fix

https://github.com/ceph/ceph-ansible/pull/4998

Comment 7 Siddharth Sharma 2020-01-30 03:38:23 UTC

Mitigation:

Change and use strong passwords in ceph-ansible playbook

- https://github.com/ceph/ceph-ansible/blob/v4.0.14/roles/ceph-defaults/defaults/main.yml#L701
- https://github.com/ceph/ceph-ansible/blob/v4.0.14/roles/ceph-defaults/defaults/main.yml#L711

Comment 8 Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-02-11 09:27:57 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: Sarthak Srivastava

Comment 9 Joshua Padman 2020-03-13 02:47:08 UTC

Statement:

The version of ceph-ansible included in Red Hat OpenStack 15 was temporary, OpenStack 15 installations will consume updates to this package from Ceph channels.

Comment 10 Joshua Padman 2020-03-13 02:47:33 UTC

Created ceph-ansible tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-30 [bug 1813137]

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2020-05-19 17:30:39 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Ceph Storage 4.1

Via RHSA-2020:2231 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2231

Comment 12 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-05-19 21:15:20 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-2020-1716