CVE-2020-10763: Medium severity Heketi Project Heketi vulnerability

Published Jun 9, 2020
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Updated

An information-disclosure flaw was found in the way Heketi before 10.1.0 logs sensitive information. This flaw allows an attacker with local access to the Heketi server to read potentially sensitive information such as gluster-block passwords.

Other sources

An information-disclosure flaw was found in the way Heketi logs sensitive information. This flaw allows an attacker with local access to the Heketi server, to read potentially sensitive information, such as gluster-block passwords.

While requesting a new block volume creation, at Heketi we dump the sensitive gluster-block volumes PASSWORD details in the logs. This is a very old bug, starting from the introduction of block volume support to heketi-v6.0.0.

Red Hat

Affected Software

10 affected componentsFixes available
redhat/heketi<0:9.0.0-9.5.el7
0:9.0.0-9.5.el7
redhat/gluster-block<0:0.2.1-36.2.el7
0:0.2.1-36.2.el7
redhat/tcmu-runner<0:1.2.0-32.2.el7
0:1.2.0-32.2.el7
redhat/heketi<10.1.0
10.1.0
go/github.com/heketi/heketi<10.1.0
10.1.0
Heketi Project Heketi<10.1.0
redhat Gluster Storage=3.0
redhat Gluster Storage=3.5
redhat OpenShift Container Platform=4.0
redhat Enterprise Linux=7.0

Remediation

Information

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

Event History

Sep 30, 2020
CVE Published
12:00 AM
Nov 24, 2020
CVE Published
via MITRE·04:17 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·04:17 PM
DescriptionWeakness
May 24, 2022
Advisory Published
via GitHub·05:34 PM

Parent advisories

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Frequently Asked Questions

1

What is CVE-2020-10763?

CVE-2020-10763 is an information-disclosure vulnerability found in Heketi before 10.1.0 that allows an attacker with local access to the Heketi server to read potentially sensitive information.

2

How does CVE-2020-10763 impact Heketi?

CVE-2020-10763 impacts Heketi by allowing an attacker with local access to the server to read sensitive information, such as gluster-block passwords.

3

What is the severity of CVE-2020-10763?

CVE-2020-10763 has a severity rating of medium with a CVSS score of 5.5.

4

How can I fix CVE-2020-10763?

To fix CVE-2020-10763, update Heketi to version 10.1.0 or later.

5

Where can I find more information about CVE-2020-10763?

You can find more information about CVE-2020-10763 on the official CVE website, NIST NVD, and the GitHub page for Heketi.

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