Bug 2280249 (CVE-2024-4840)

Summary:	CVE-2024-4840 rhosp-director: cleartext passwords exposed in logs
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Robb Gatica <rgatica>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	eglynn, jjoyce, jschluet, lhh, lsvaty, mburns, mgarciac, morazi, pgrist, rhos-maint
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OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	An flaw was found in the OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) director, a toolset for installing and managing a complete RHOSP environment. Plaintext passwords may be stored in log files, which can expose sensitive information to anyone with access to the logs.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2280252, 2280253
Bug Blocks:	2280250

Description Robb Gatica 2024-05-13 16:53:44 UTC

Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2279386

Description of problem: 
It was found that DB_ROOT_PASSWORD and RABBITMQ_CLUSTER_COOKIE found in cleartext in /var/log/messages. This seems to happen when mysql container is bootstrapped. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
17.1, as well as 16.2

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run undercloud deploy or upgrade, or re-run undercloud install command

Actual results:
clear text passwords printed in logs

Expected results:
clear text passwords not printed in logs

Additional info:
This seems to happen even when undercloud_debug = false

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2024-11-21 09:30:25 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 for RHEL 9

Via RHSA-2024:9978 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9978