CVE-2015-9543

Summary

CVECVE-2015-9543
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-02-19 03:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-02-27 19:17:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in OpenStack Nova before 18.2.4, 19.x before 19.1.0, and 20.x before 20.1.0. It can leak consoleauth tokens into log files. An attacker with read access to the service's logs may obtain tokens used for console access. All Nova setups using novncproxy are affected. This is related to NovaProxyRequestHandlerBase.new_websocket_client in console/websocketproxy.py.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-200

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openstack Nova All All All All
Application Openstack Nova All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
OpenStack Docs: OSSA-2020-001: Nova can leak consoleauth token into log files CONFIRM security.openstack.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
oss-security - [OSSA-2020-001] Nova can leak consoleauth token into log files (CVE-2015-9543) MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Gerrit Code Review MISC review.opendev.org Third Party Advisory
Bug #1492140 “[OSSA-2020-001] Nova can leak consoleauth token in...” : Bugs : OpenStack Compute (nova) MISC launchpad.net Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199170 Ubuntu Security Notification for Nova Vulnerabilities (USN-5866-1)
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