Bug 1930926 (CVE-2021-20256)

Summary: CVE-2021-20256 Satellite: BMC controller credential leak via API
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Yadnyawalk Tale <ytale>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: bbuckingham, bcourt, bkearney, btotty, hhudgeon, lzap, mmccune, nmoumoul, pcreech, rchan, rjerrido, sokeeffe
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A flaw was found in Red Hat Satellite. The BMC interface exposes the password through the API to an authenticated local attacker with view_hosts permission. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
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Last Closed: 2021-11-13 15:48:05 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1930927    
Bug Blocks: 1930366, 1930929    

Description Yadnyawalk Tale 2021-02-19 19:41:41 UTC
A password leak was identified on Red Hat Satellite which will expose BMC password in plaintext through the compute host API.

Comment 1 Yadnyawalk Tale 2021-02-19 19:41:46 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: Evgeni Golov (Red Hat)

Comment 5 RaTasha Tillery-Smith 2021-02-22 16:42:16 UTC
Statement:

Red Hat Satellite is vulnerable to the BMC controller credential leak through the compute host API. Red Hat Product Security has rated this flaw as having a security impact of Moderate. Please refer to https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification for clarification on the scoring.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-16 14:07:56 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 6.10 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2021:4702 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4702