Bug 1553522 – CVE-2018-1072 ovirt-engine-setup: unfiltered db password in engine-backup log

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Bug 1553522 - (CVE-2018-1072) CVE-2018-1072 ovirt-engine-setup: unfiltered db password in engine-backup log

Summary:	CVE-2018-1072 ovirt-engine-setup: unfiltered db password in engine-backup log

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-1072

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1558798 1558799 1558812
Blocks:	1542511
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Reported:	2018-03-08 20:43 EST by Doran Moppert
Modified:	2018-07-18 11:50 EDT (History)
CC List:	18 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	oVirt 4.2.2
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in ovirt-engine. When engine-backup was run with one of the options "--provision*db", the database username and password were logged in cleartext. Sharing the provisioning log might inadvertently leak database passwords.
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:2071	None	None	None	2018-06-27 06:02 EDT

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Description Doran Moppert 2018-03-08 20:43:06 EST

The ovirt-engine-provisiondb utility, which is called by engine-backup if invoked with one of the options --provision*db, logs the username and password of the db user without redaction.

Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2018-03-08 20:43:15 EST

Acknowledgments:

Name: Yedidyah Bar David (Red Hat)

Comment 5 Doran Moppert 2018-06-26 00:49:42 EDT

External References:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1540622

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2018-06-27 06:02:24 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.2

Via RHSA-2018:2071 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2071

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