Re: CVE request: sos: /etc/fstab collected by sosreport, possibly containing passwords

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

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On 05/29/2014 12:57 PM, Dolev Farhi wrote:
> I tend to agree with most of this actually, but since sosreport is
> there to collect information for troubleshooting issues only, then
> there is no actual reason not to remove the pw field of a mount in
> fstab, even though the file is world readable in the first place. I
> do agree that this widens the scope from Red Hats side especially
> while most of the time it would be close to impossible to prevent
> password disclosures in configuration files, especially when it
> depends on the random way a sysadmin alters config files. Best
> practice is to use the credentials option and point fstab to read
> the mount username and password from a file but there are multiple
> ways to achieve the same goal. I am not sure regarding the
> necessity of a CVE here, though I dont see much of a difference
> between this to any other password disclosures (such as grub.conf)
> discovered in sosreport in the past, except that fstab is world 
> readable. On both cases the problem is that this file is handled by
> 3rd parties.
>
> Thanks
>
> -- Dolev Farhi

So /etc/fstab is world readable, within that system. The file is then
being exported to Red Hat, we don't really need or want the password,
we also make an effort to sanitize the data sent, so if nothing else
this falls into the "intended/advertised security feature that failed"
and would qualify for a CVE as such as I understand things.


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Kurt Seifried - Red Hat - Product Security - Cloud stuff and such
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