Bug 905865 – CVE-2012-6115 rhev: rhevm-manage-domains logs admin passwords

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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

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2012-6115

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

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

Depends On:	886244 892322
Blocks:	905884 905885
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Reported:	2013-01-30 05:54 EST by Petr Matousek
Modified:	2013-06-11 04:58 EDT (History)
CC List:	8 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2013-06-11 04:58:07 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:0211	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: rhevm 3.1.2 security and bug fix update	2013-02-04 23:53:00 EST

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Description Petr Matousek 2013-01-30 05:54:05 EST

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 18:36:56 EST

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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