Bug 1114835 (CVE-2014-3536) - CVE-2014-3536 CFME: RHN account info logged to top_output.log during registration
Summary: CVE-2014-3536 CFME: RHN account info logged to top_output.log during registra...
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: CVE-2014-3536
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1114870 1114871
Blocks: 1114842
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-07-01 06:40 UTC by Kurt Seifried
Modified: 2023-05-12 13:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-07-06 18:13:19 UTC
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Description Kurt Seifried 2014-07-01 06:40:34 UTC 
Carsten Clasohm of Red Hat reports:

During registration of a CloudForms appliance with Red Hat Subscription
Management, using the appliance Web UI the RHN subscription information
is logged into the log file:

/var/www/miq/vmdb/log/top_output.log:

2620 2165 root 21 1 292m 22m 7712 S 0.6 0.6 0:00.36
/usr/bin/python -S /usr/sbin/subscription-manager orgs
--username=RHN_USERNAME --password=RHN_PASSWORD
--serverurl=subscription.rhn.redhat.com 

Please note that the file /var/www/miq/vmdb/log/top_output.log is world
readable by default.
Comment 1 Kurt Seifried 2014-07-01 06:50:10 UTC 
Acknowledgement:

This issue was discovered by Carsten Clasohm of Red Hat.
Comment 5 Kurt Seifried 2015-07-06 18:13:19 UTC 
Statement:

This issue affects Red Hat Cloud Forms 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/. Please note that a fix for this issue may also be documented in the CFME hardening guide.
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