Bug 905865 (CVE-2012-6115) - CVE-2012-6115 rhev: rhevm-manage-domains logs admin passwords
Summary: CVE-2012-6115 rhev: rhevm-manage-domains logs admin passwords
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-6115
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 886244 892322
Blocks: 905884 905885
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Reported: 2013-01-30 10:54 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2023-05-11 21:18 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-06-11 08:58:07 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0211 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: rhevm 3.1.2 security and bug fix update 2013-02-05 04:53:00 UTC

Description Petr Matousek 2013-01-30 10:54:05 UTC 
It was discovered that rhevm-manage-domains, when performing validate action,
logged administrative passwords to a world readable log file. A local
attacker could use this flaw to control systems deployed and managed by RHEV.

Upstream commit:
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-engine.git;a=commit;h=e8c72daec4efa8be0fcd8ea55c41e855ddd8eedf

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Andrew Cathrow of Red Hat.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-04 23:36:56 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  RHEV Manager version 3.1

Via RHSA-2013:0211 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0211.html
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