Bug #15517
Root password is sent to system journal in clear text when set
Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Image
Target version:
Difficulty:
trivial
Triaged:
No
Bugzilla link:
Description
By default root account is locked on discovered nodes, user needs to enable ssh service manually and enter root password in the dialog. Then it makes into the system journal in clear text.
This is being tracked as CVE-2016-4996, moderate impact.
Acknowledgments:
Name: Thom Carlin (Red Hat)
Associated revisions
History
#1
Updated by Lukas Zapletal almost 7 years ago
- Bugzilla link set to 1349138
#2
Updated by The Foreman Bot almost 7 years ago
- Status changed from New to Ready For Testing
- Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-discovery-image/pull/77 added
#3
Updated by Lukas Zapletal almost 7 years ago
- Status changed from Ready For Testing to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Applied in changeset foreman-discovery-image|5ec8a51cf400b9a2112a0ba34942d06e5c5589b8.
Fixes #15517 - root password is not sent to journal (#77)