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Nova and Cinder key manager for Barbican misuses cached credentials
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### Summary ###
During the Icehouse release the Cinder and Nova projects added a feature
that supports storage volume encryption using keys stored in Barbican.
The Barbican key manager, that is part of Nova and Cinder, had a bug
that could cause an authorized user to lose access to an encryption key
or allow the wrong user to gain access to an encryption key.

### Affected Services / Software ###
Cinder: Icehouse, Juno, Kilo, Liberty
Nova: Juno, Kilo, Liberty

### Discussion ###
The Barbican key manager is a feature that is part of Nova and Cinder to
allow those projects to create and retrieve keys in Barbican. The key
manager includes a cache function that allows for a copy_key() operation
to work while only validating the token once with Keystone.

This cache function had a bug such that the cached token was used for
operations where it was no longer valid. The symptoms of this error
vary, but include a user not being able to access their key or the wrong
user being able to access a key.

An affected user would see an error similar to this in their cinder log:

---- begin cinder.log sample snippet ----
2015-12-03 09:09:03.648 TRACE cinder.volume.api Unauthorized: The
request you have made requires authentication. (Disable debug mode to
suppress these details.) (HTTP 401) (Request-ID:
req-d2c52e0b-c16d-43ec-a7a0-7611113f1270)
---- end cinder.log sample snippet ----

### Recommended Actions ###
Users wishing to use the Barbican key manager to provided keys for
volume encryption with Nova and Cinder should ensure they are using a
patched version.

A specification for a fix has been merged for the Mitaka release of both
Nova and Cinder. Additionally these patches have been backported to
stable/kilo and stable/liberty.

### Contacts / References ###
This OSSN : https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OSSN/OSSN-0063
Original LaunchPad Bug : https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1523646
OpenStack Security ML : openstack-security at lists.openstack.org
OpenStack Security Group : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-ossg
Nova patch for Mitaka : https://review.openstack.org/254358/
Nova patch for stable/liberty: https://review.openstack.org/288490
Cinder patch for Mitaka : https://review.openstack.org/254357/
Cinder patch for stable/liberty: https://review.openstack.org/266678
Cinder patch for stable/kilo: https://review.openstack.org/266680
CVE : N/A

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