Bug 1497971 (CVE-2017-14955) - CVE-2017-14955 check-mk: Mishandles certain errors within the failed-login save feature because of a race condition
Summary: CVE-2017-14955 check-mk: Mishandles certain errors within the failed-login sa...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2017-14955
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1497972 1497973
Blocks: 1497974
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-10-03 09:17 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 01:26 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: check-mk 1.2.8p26
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:26:25 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-03 09:17:58 UTC 
Check_MK before 1.2.8p26 mishandles certain errors within the failed-login save feature because of a race condition, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive user information by reading a GUI crash report.

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https://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk_werks.php?werk_id=5208
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-03 09:18:19 UTC 
Created check-mk tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1497972]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1497973]
Comment 2 Siddharth Sharma 2017-10-04 04:30:46 UTC 
Upstream Fix:

http://git.mathias-kettner.de/git/?p=check_mk.git;a=patch;h=a4a2cc1f30ff6032899ca80eed29fa26b8898c54
Comment 3 Siddharth Sharma 2017-10-04 04:37:04 UTC 
Statement:

Red Hat Gluster Storage 3 is not affected because affected code is not shipped in the product. Affected code is present in check-mk-multisite rpm which is not shipped in this product.
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