Bug 2280249 (CVE-2024-4840) - CVE-2024-4840 rhosp-director: cleartext passwords exposed in logs
Summary: CVE-2024-4840 rhosp-director: cleartext passwords exposed in logs
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-4840
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2280252 2280253
Blocks: 2280250
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Reported: 2024-05-13 16:53 UTC by Robb Gatica
Modified: 2024-11-21 09:30 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:9978 0 None None None 2024-11-21 09:30:27 UTC

Description Robb Gatica 2024-05-13 16:53:44 UTC 
Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2279386

Description of problem: 
It was found that DB_ROOT_PASSWORD and RABBITMQ_CLUSTER_COOKIE found in cleartext in /var/log/messages. This seems to happen when mysql container is bootstrapped. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
17.1, as well as 16.2

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run undercloud deploy or upgrade, or re-run undercloud install command

Actual results:
clear text passwords printed in logs

Expected results:
clear text passwords not printed in logs

Additional info:
This seems to happen even when undercloud_debug = false
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2024-11-21 09:30:25 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 for RHEL 9

Via RHSA-2024:9978 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9978
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