[Openstack] [Openstack-security] API Security

Hao Wang hao.1.wang at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 14:53:13 UTC 2014


That is great information! Thanks.


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Clark, Robert Graham
<robert.clark at hp.com>wrote:

> Absolutely, for people that haven’t updated their SSL libraries (where
> OpenSSL was in use) there could be some level of exposure.
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> This has actually been addressed in an OpenStack Security Note:
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OSSN/OSSN-0012
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> *From:* Hao Wang [mailto:hao.1.wang at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 29 April 2014 15:26
> *To:* Clark, Robert Graham
> *Cc:* openstack-security at lists.openstack.org; openstack; Aaron Knister
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> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack-security] [Openstack] API Security
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> Thanks. It makes sense. The other questions are, would Heartbleed be a
> potential risk? Which solution is being used in OpenStack SSL?
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> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Clark, Robert Graham <
> robert.clark at hp.com> wrote:
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> This is why any production API servers should all be running TLS/SSL – to
> protect the confidentiality of messages in flight.
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> There have been efforts to remove sensitive information from logs, I’m a
> little surprised that passwords are logged in Neutron.
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> *From:* Hao Wang [mailto:hao.1.wang at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 29 April 2014 14:06
> *To:* openstack-security at lists.openstack.org
> *Cc:* openstack; Aaron Knister
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack-security] [Openstack] API Security
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> Adding security group...
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> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Hao Wang <hao.1.wang at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It is the client. I got this message with DEBUG enabled:
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> curl -i 'http://192.168.56.103:35357/v2.0/tokens' -X POST -H
> "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -H
> "User-Agent: python-novaclient" -d '{"auth": {"tenantName": "admin",
> "passwordCredentials": {"username": "admin", "password": "admin"}}}'
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> It can be seen that username and password are right in the message.
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> Hao
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> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Aaron Knister <aaron.knister at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Was it the client or the server that exposed the credentials?
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Apr 26, 2014, at 2:28 PM, Hao Wang <hao.1.wang at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am troubleshooting a neutron case. It was just found that if DEBUG was
> enabled, neutron would print out JSON data with username and password. I am
> wondering what kind of protocol is used in production environment to
> prevent this security risk from happening.
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> Thanks,
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> Hao
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