OSSA-2017-002: Nova logs sensitive context from notification exceptions

Date:

March 23, 2017

CVE:

CVE-2017-7214

Affects

• Nova: >=13.0.0 <=13.1.3, >=14.0.0 <=14.0.4, >=15.0.0 <=15.0.1

Description

Matt Riedemann with Huawei reported a vulnerability in Nova. Legacy notification exception contexts appearing in ERROR level logs may include sensitive information such as account passwords and authorization tokens. All Nova setups are affected.

Patches

• https://review.openstack.org/447075 (Mitaka)

• https://review.openstack.org/447072 (Newton)

• https://review.openstack.org/447071 (Ocata)

• https://review.openstack.org/446948 (Pike)

Credits

• Matt Riedemann from Huawei (CVE-2017-7214)

References

• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1673569

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7214