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CVE-2016-3704: Unsafe use of bash $RANDOM for NSS DB password and seed

Added by rbarlow over 8 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:
CLOSED - CURRENTRELEASE
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
-
Sprint/Milestone:
-
Start date:
Due date:
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Severity:
3. High
Version:
Platform Release:
2.8.5
OS:
Triaged:
Yes
Groomed:
No
Sprint Candidate:
No
Tags:
Pulp 2
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Quarter:

Description

In working on another security issue in this same script, I noticed that
Pulp's pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg script uses bash's $RANDOM in unsafe ways. One
of them is already being fixed as part of another CVE (the TMP directory
is unsafe, CVE-2016-3696), but the other two uses are:

0) The default NSS DB password is a single value from $RANDOM,
limiting it to the strings from 0 to 32768:

https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/pulp-2.8.2-1/server/bin/pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg#L25

1) The certutil -z flag receives a "noise file". The script uses $RANDOM to
populate a file with numbers to generate this file:

https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/pulp-2.8.2-1/server/bin/pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg#L97-L105

Since $RANDOM is used in this way, the seed file ends up having low
diversity since only 11 possible bytes appear in the file: ASCII 0-9 and
newline. Additionally, bash's RANDOM has not been described as a
sound random generator for such purposes.

pwgen can be used to fix #0, but I'm not sure we want to depend
on pwgen. One possibility is to avoid having a default password and force
the user to provide one. Suggestions for this problem welcome.

For #1 we should just grab 8 kB from /dev/urandom and call it a day.

Actions #1

Updated by rbarlow over 8 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
Actions #2

Updated by rbarlow over 8 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
Actions #3

Updated by rbarlow over 8 years ago

  • Severity changed from 2. Medium to 3. High
Actions #4

Updated by rbarlow over 8 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
Actions #5

Updated by rbarlow over 8 years ago

  • Subject changed from CVE-2016-XXXX: Unsafe use of bash $RANDOM for NSS DB password and seed to CVE-2016-3700: Unsafe use of bash $RANDOM for NSS DB password and seed
Actions #6

Updated by rbarlow over 8 years ago

  • Subject changed from CVE-2016-3700: Unsafe use of bash $RANDOM for NSS DB password and seed to CVE-2016-3704: Unsafe use of bash $RANDOM for NSS DB password and seed
Actions #7

Updated by rbarlow over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from ASSIGNED to POST
Actions #8

Updated by rbarlow over 8 years ago

  • Platform Release set to 2.8.4
Actions #9

Updated by dkliban@redhat.com over 8 years ago

  • Triaged changed from No to Yes

Added by rbarlow over 8 years ago

Revision 1b9b635d | View on GitHub

CVE-2016-3704: Use stronger seed and DB password. (#2555)

Pulp's pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg script used bash's $RANDOM in unsafe ways:

  1. The default NSS DB password was a single value from $RANDOM, limiting it to the strings from 0 to 32768.

  2. The certutil -z flag receives a "noise file". The script used $RANDOM to populate a file with numbers to generate this file. Since $RANDOM was used in this way, the seed file had low diversity since only 11 possible bytes appeared in the file (ASCII 0-9 and newline).

This commit alters the script to use /dev/urandom as the source for generating the DB password and the seed.

https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1858

fixes #1858

Added by rbarlow over 8 years ago

Revision 1b9b635d | View on GitHub

CVE-2016-3704: Use stronger seed and DB password. (#2555)

Pulp's pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg script used bash's $RANDOM in unsafe ways:

  1. The default NSS DB password was a single value from $RANDOM, limiting it to the strings from 0 to 32768.

  2. The certutil -z flag receives a "noise file". The script used $RANDOM to populate a file with numbers to generate this file. Since $RANDOM was used in this way, the seed file had low diversity since only 11 possible bytes appeared in the file (ASCII 0-9 and newline).

This commit alters the script to use /dev/urandom as the source for generating the DB password and the seed.

https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1858

fixes #1858

Actions #10

Updated by rbarlow over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from POST to MODIFIED
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

Added by Randy Barlow over 8 years ago

Revision d86b111b | View on GitHub

Add release notes for the CVEs included with Pulp 2.8.4.

re #1854 re #1858

Added by Randy Barlow over 8 years ago

Revision d86b111b | View on GitHub

Add release notes for the CVEs included with Pulp 2.8.4.

re #1854 re #1858

Actions #11

Updated by semyers over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from MODIFIED to 5
Actions #12

Updated by semyers over 8 years ago

  • Platform Release changed from 2.8.4 to 2.8.5
Actions #13

Updated by semyers over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from 5 to MODIFIED
Actions #15

Updated by semyers over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from MODIFIED to 5
Actions #16

Updated by semyers over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from 5 to CLOSED - CURRENTRELEASE
Actions #18

Updated by bmbouter over 5 years ago

  • Tags Pulp 2 added

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