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Bug 766939

Summary: security_token.rb should be regenerated on each install
Product: Red Hat Satellite Reporter: Mike McCune <mmccune>
Component: PackagingAssignee: Lukas Zapletal <lzap>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Katello QA List <katello-qa-list>
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Version: 6.0.0CC: cwelton, lzap
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Description Mike McCune 2011-12-12 20:14:35 UTC 
copied from AC:

https://www.aeolusproject.org/redmine/issues/2660

This is used to sign session cookies. If all Conductor installations have the same key, it allows an attacker to modify or craft session cookies and then sign them so that the server will trust them.

FWIW, I sent a patch to solve this, but it's sparked some further discussion on the right way to tackle this: https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/aeolus-devel/2011-October/006010.html


note there is a patch mentioned in above thread:

https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/aeolus-devel/2011-October/006011.html
Comment 1 Lukas Zapletal 2011-12-13 12:12:27 UTC 
I am not big fan of running rake task in the RPM post section. First of all its slow, second it can fail if any of our ruby dependencies does not match version.

So I am adding this:

sed -i "s/^Src::Application.config.secret_token = '.*'/Src::Application.config.secret_token = '$(</dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c128)'/" config/initializers/secret_token.rb

It also generates BASE64-like string instead of simple hexa string. This is more secure.
Comment 2 Lukas Zapletal 2011-12-13 12:50:44 UTC 
1) I can confirm the string does not have to be hexa. It works with any 
(base64 etc) encoded string.

2) Rake use Bundler and we were facing many issues with incorrect 
dependencies (discussed on the ruby sig list). I tend not to use 
Bundler-based things in the RPM postun sections, because even when deps
would be incorrect, I would like to have the RPM to be properly 
installed. Therefore we generate the same using tr and sed tools.

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=katello.git;a=commitdiff;h=738bf1479390ba3d2df88ba24d43b9fbd118b160

It's also much faster.

3) Since the secret_token file is distributed, MD5 RPM validation fails.
I don't think this is an issue.

$ rpm -qV katello-common
5..T.....    /usr/share/katello/config/initializers/secret_token.rb


738bf14 766939 - security_token.rb should be regenerated on each install
Comment 4 Corey Welton 2012-02-08 14:10:42 UTC 
QA Verified that this is getting regenerated.