Bug 875294 (CVE-2012-5509) - CVE-2012-5509 aeolus-configserver: aeolus-configserver-setup /tmp file conductor credentials leak
Summary: CVE-2012-5509 aeolus-configserver: aeolus-configserver-setup /tmp file conduc...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-5509
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 875222 891393
Blocks: 883745 906635
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Reported: 2012-11-10 07:39 UTC by Kurt Seifried
Modified: 2023-05-12 15:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-03-15 03:55:23 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0545 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: CloudForms Cloud Engine 1.1.2 update 2013-02-22 00:01:30 UTC

Description Kurt Seifried 2012-11-10 07:39:35 UTC 
Aaron Weitekamp of Red Hat reports:

Description of problem:
aeolus-configserver-setup leaves /tmp file that contains key/secret credentials. File is chmod 755.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.1
[root@10-16-120-239 ~]# rpm -qa |grep aeolus
aeolus-audrey-agent-0.4.10-1.el6cf.noarch
aeolus-configserver-0.4.11-1.el6cf.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run `aeolus-configserver-setup`
2. search for file in /tmp `ls -ltr /tmp`

Actual results:
file /tmp/tmp.[random_string] exists with credentials

Expected results:
remove /tmp file.
Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2013-02-13 23:36:32 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Aaron Weitekamp of the Red Hat Cloud Quality Engineering team.
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 19:08:16 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  CloudForms for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2013:0545 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0545.html
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