==================================================================== OSSA-2015-008: Potential Keystone cache backend password leak in log ====================================================================

:Date: May 04, 2015 :CVE: CVE-2015-3646

Affects ~~~~~~~ - Keystone: versions through 2014.1.4, and 2014.2 versions through 2014.2.3

Description ~~~~~~~~~~~ Eric Brown from VMware reported a vulnerability in Keystone. The backend_argument configuration option content is being logged, and it may contain sensitive information for specific backends (like a password for MongoDB). An attacker with read access to Keystone logs may therefore obtain sensitive data about certain backends. All Keystone setups are potentially impacted.

Patches ~~~~~~~ - https://review.openstack.org/175519 (Icehouse) - https://review.openstack.org/173116 (Juno)

Credits ~~~~~~~ - Eric Brown from VMware (CVE-2015-3646)

References ~~~~~~~~~~ - https://launchpad.net/bugs/1443598 - http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3646

Notes ~~~~~ - This fix will be included in future 2014.1.5 (icehouse) and 2014.2.4 (juno) releases. - The 2015.1.0 (kilo) release is not affected.