CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-25210

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published: Mar 03, 2024 | Modified: Sep 04, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Ubuntu

An issue was discovered in Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Helm through 3.13.3. It displays values of secrets when the –dry-run flag is used. This is a security concern in some use cases, such as a –dry-run call by a CI/CD tool. NOTE: the vendors position is that this behavior was introduced intentionally, and cannot be removed without breaking backwards compatibility (some users may be relying on these values). Also, it is not the Helm Projects responsibility if a user decides to use –dry-run within a CI/CD environment whose output is visible to unauthorized persons.

Weakness

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.3 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-central-db-rhel8:4.3.6-2 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.3 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-collector-rhel8:4.3.6-3 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.3 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-collector-slim-rhel8:4.3.6-1 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.3 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel8:4.3.6-4 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.3 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-operator-bundle:4.3.6-4 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.3 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-rhel8-operator:4.3.6-2 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.3 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-roxctl-rhel8:4.3.6-2 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.3 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-db-rhel8:4.3.6-3 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.3 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-db-slim-rhel8:4.3.6-1 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.3 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-rhel8:4.3.6-3 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.3 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-slim-rhel8:4.3.6-3 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.4 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-central-db-rhel8:4.4.0-9 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.4 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-collector-rhel8:4.4.0-2 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.4 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-collector-slim-rhel8:4.4.0-2 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.4 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel8:4.4.0-17 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.4 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-operator-bundle:4.4.0-17 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.4 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-rhel8-operator:4.4.0-9 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.4 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-roxctl-rhel8:4.4.0-9 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.4 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-db-rhel8:4.4.0-11 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.4 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-db-slim-rhel8:4.4.0-2 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.4 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-rhel8:4.4.0-11 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.4 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-slim-rhel8:4.4.0-11 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.4 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-v4-db-rhel8:4.4.0-8 *
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.4 RedHat advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-v4-rhel8:4.4.0-13 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 RedHat openshift4/ose-azure-cluster-api-controllers-rhel9:v4.16.0-202406131906.p0.gface7da.assembly.stream.el9 *

Extended Description

There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:

Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:

Information exposures can occur in different ways:

It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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