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CVE-2017-7214

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Published: Mar 21, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.1 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7214
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/532.html

An issue was discovered in exception_wrapper.py in OpenStack Nova 13.x through 13.1.3, 14.x through 14.0.4, and 15.x through 15.0.1. Legacy notification exception contexts appearing in ERROR level logs may include sensitive information such as account passwords and authorization tokens.

Weakness

The product writes sensitive information to a log file.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
NovaOpenstack13.0.0 (including)13.0.0 (including)
NovaOpenstack13.1.0 (including)13.1.0 (including)
NovaOpenstack13.1.1 (including)13.1.1 (including)
NovaOpenstack13.1.2 (including)13.1.2 (including)
NovaOpenstack13.1.3 (including)13.1.3 (including)
NovaOpenstack14.0.0 (including)14.0.0 (including)
NovaOpenstack14.0.1 (including)14.0.1 (including)
NovaOpenstack14.0.2 (including)14.0.2 (including)
NovaOpenstack14.0.3 (including)14.0.3 (including)
NovaOpenstack14.0.4 (including)14.0.4 (including)
NovaOpenstack15.0.0 (including)15.0.0 (including)
NovaOpenstack15.0.1 (including)15.0.1 (including)
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)RedHatopenstack-nova-1:14.0.6-2.el7ost*
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)RedHatpython-novaclient-1:6.0.0-3.el7ost*
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka)RedHatopenstack-nova-1:13.1.4-1.el7ost*
NovaUbuntuprecise*
NovaUbuntuyakkety*

Potential Mitigations

References

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