[Openstack-security] [Bug 1175905] Re: passlib failure to sanitize env variables PASSLIB_MAX_PASSWORD_SIZE
Morgan Fainberg
morgan.fainberg at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 04:16:51 UTC 2014
Instead of returning HTTP 500 (ISE), the simplest fix is to just return
HTTP 400. Lets be fair, if a deployer configures a longer maxium
password than passlib can handle, it's either a 500 or a 400. In this
case we can determine what the correct size would be and we should raise
up a 400 Bad Request.
This is an edge case, but handling it elegantly is better than letting
it just fail in an ugly way.
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Title:
passlib failure to sanitize env variables PASSLIB_MAX_PASSWORD_SIZE
Status in OpenStack Identity (Keystone):
In Progress
Bug description:
Grant Murphy originally reported:
* Usage of passlib
The keystone server does not appear to sanitize the environment when
starting. This means that an unintended value can be set for
PASSLIB_MAX_PASSWORD_SIZE. Which will overwrite the default value of
4096 and potentially cause an unhandled passlib.exc.PasswordSizeError.
We should ensure sensible defaults are applied here prior to loading passlib.
If this is exploitable it will need a CVE, if not we should still
harden it so it can't be monkeyed with in the future.
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