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Reviewed:  https://review.openstack.org/371915
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/cinder/commit/?id=a2839788e4ff74aa083c71c35755bc80579f17bb
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch:    master

commit a2839788e4ff74aa083c71c35755bc80579f17bb
Author: pallavi <pallavi.s at nectechnologies.in>
Date:   Sat Sep 17 16:28:24 2016 +0530

    Don't attempt to escalate cinder-manage privileges
    
    Remove code which allowed cinder-manage to attempt to escalate
    privileges so that configuration files can be read by users who
    normally wouldn't have access, but do have sudo access.
    
    Change-Id: Ibdfe5dfbe27856689408987f62d145dfd380fb90
    Closes-Bug: 1611171


** Changed in: cinder
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  re-runs self via sudo

Status in Cinder:
  Fix Released
Status in Designate:
  In Progress
Status in ec2-api:
  In Progress
Status in gce-api:
  In Progress
Status in Manila:
  In Progress
Status in masakari:
  Fix Released
Status in OpenStack Compute (nova):
  In Progress
Status in OpenStack Security Advisory:
  Won't Fix
Status in Rally:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Hello, I'm looking through Designate source code to determine if is
  appropriate to include in Ubuntu Main. This isn't a full security
  audit.

  This looks like trouble:

  ./designate/cmd/manage.py

  def main():
      CONF.register_cli_opt(category_opt)

      try:
          utils.read_config('designate', sys.argv)
          logging.setup(CONF, 'designate')
      except cfg.ConfigFilesNotFoundError:
          cfgfile = CONF.config_file[-1] if CONF.config_file else None
          if cfgfile and not os.access(cfgfile, os.R_OK):
              st = os.stat(cfgfile)
              print(_("Could not read %s. Re-running with sudo") % cfgfile)
              try:
                  os.execvp('sudo', ['sudo', '-u', '#%s' % st.st_uid] + sys.argv)
              except Exception:
                  print(_('sudo failed, continuing as if nothing happened'))

          print(_('Please re-run designate-manage as root.'))
          sys.exit(2)

  
  This is an interesting decision -- if the configuration file is _not_ readable by the user in question, give the executing user complete privileges of the user that owns the unreadable file.

  I'm not a fan of hiding privilege escalation / modifications in
  programs -- if a user had recently used sudo and thus had the
  authentication token already stored for their terminal, this 'hidden'
  use of sudo may be unexpected and unwelcome, especially since it
  appears that argv from the first call leaks through to the sudo call.

  Is this intentional OpenStack style? Or unexpected for you guys too?

  (Feel free to make this public at your convenience.)

  Thanks

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