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Bug 228637

Summary: CVE-2007-1462 security alert - passwords sent back from server as input value
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Jim Parsons <jparsons>
Component: congaAssignee: Ryan McCabe <rmccabe>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Corey Marthaler <cmarthal>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 5.0CC: cluster-maint, kanderso, kupcevic, rkenna, rmccabe
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=low,source=redhat,reported=20070212,public=20070213
Fixed In Version: RHBA-2007-0331 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-05-18 20:29:28 UTC Type: ---
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copy of letter sent to security response team none

Description Jim Parsons 2007-02-14 03:51:28 UTC 
The password for the remote system(s) is persisted between two page loads in
the Add System/Cluster task flow. If it were persisted in the server session it
would not be a problem, but instead it it is returned to the browser as a
'Value' attribute in a password entry field widget. This means that if the user
were to 'View Source', the password would appear as plaintext in the html.

NOTE: All luci interaction is done via HTTPS; still this does present a remote,
but possible means of exploit.
Comment 1 Jim Parsons 2007-02-14 03:54:04 UTC 
Created attachment 148037 [details]
copy of letter sent to security response team
Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2007-02-14 14:31:04 UTC 
This is an issue that would require quite unlikely circumstances to exploit
(user walks away, works offline) and is mitigated from a man-in-the-middle by
SSL, so I'd rate this as having low security impact. 
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
Comment 3 Rob Kenna 2007-02-14 15:05:39 UTC 
Ack for 5.1 train.
Comment 4 Kiersten (Kerri) Anderson 2007-04-23 16:21:08 UTC 
Fixing Product name.
Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-05-18 20:29:28 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0331.html