[Openstack-security] [Bug 1192971] Re: Command execution cases need to be strengthened
Thierry Carrez
thierry.carrez+lp at gmail.com
Fri Aug 2 08:10:48 UTC 2013
@Kurt: none of those cases are exploitable, even if it pastes unchecked
strings inside commands, the strings used are not under the control of a
potential attacker (they are root-owned config values).
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Title:
Command execution cases need to be strengthened
Status in Cinder:
In Progress
Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
In Progress
Status in OpenStack Security Advisories:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
Grant Murphy from Red Hat Product Security Team reports the following
potential vulnerability:
For the most part OpenStack seems to do command execution safely using
subprocess.Popen. There are two instances where things become a little
dubious. The first is when shell=True is used with subprocess. This
doesn't prevent arguments being supplied that allow for multiple
commands to be executed. e.g. '; cat /etc/passwd'. The second case is
where commands are made to an external ssh host.
See attached file for a lit of potential injections: we should double-
check them (even if I expect most of them to turn false positive)
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