Bug 1371428 (CVE-2016-5432) - CVE-2016-5432 ovirt-engine: ovirt-engine-provisiondb logs contain DB username and password in plain text
Summary: CVE-2016-5432 ovirt-engine: ovirt-engine-provisiondb logs contain DB username...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-5432
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1371612 1371613
Blocks: 1371429
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Reported: 2016-08-30 08:15 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-09-29 19:12:10 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1967 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: org.ovirt.engine-root security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2016-09-29 01:02:10 UTC

Description Martin Prpič 2016-08-30 08:15:02 UTC 
When ovirt-engine-provisiondb, a utility usually called by engine-backup, was passed one of the '--provision*db' options to create postgresql DBs/users, the password of the created user is stored in the log file in plain text.
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2016-08-30 08:15:18 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Yedidyah Bar David (Red Hat)
Comment 2 Martin Prpič 2016-08-30 08:16:08 UTC 
Fix included in:

https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/I40c88ad48f8f7c2b8e06802137870b0c198b5129
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2016-09-28 22:16:33 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  RHEV Engine version 4.0

Via RHSA-2016:1967 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1967.html
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