Bug 1696400 (CVE-2019-3893) - CVE-2019-3893 foreman: Recover of plaintext password or token for the compute resources
Summary: CVE-2019-3893 foreman: Recover of plaintext password or token for the compute...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2019-3893
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1692644
Blocks: 1693171
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Reported: 2019-04-04 18:51 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-12-14 18:47 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

Fixed In Version: foreman 1.20.3, foreman 1.21.1, foreman 1.22.0
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It was discovered that the delete compute resource operation, when executed from the Foreman API, leads to the disclosure of the plaintext password or token for the affected compute resource. A malicious user with the "delete_compute_resource" permission can use this flaw to take control over compute resources managed by foreman.
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Last Closed: 2020-04-21 11:54:15 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2019-04-04 18:51:45 UTC 
A flaw was found in Foreman. The issue allows an identified user with "delete compute resource" permission to recover plaintext password or token for the compute resource.

Upstream issue:

https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/26450

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/6621

References:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1692644
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2019-04-04 18:51:48 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Vatsal Parekh (Red Hat)
Comment 5 Richard Maciel Costa 2019-04-09 02:43:04 UTC 
Mitigation:

Do not grant the "destroy_compute_resource" permission to users that should not know the password.
Comment 8 Yadnyawalk Tale 2020-04-21 11:54:15 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 6.6 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2019:3172 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3172
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