REDHAT-BUG-487722

First published: Fri Feb 27 2009(Updated: )

From Ludwid Nussel: nm-applet.conf contains the following rules: <policy context="default"> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings"/> <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings"/> <!-- Only root can get secrets --> <deny send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.Secrets"/> Ie anyone can call methods on destination org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings. There is a line that is supposed to block users from calling the GetSecrets method on the separate interface for secrets. Unfortunately that interface is not called "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.Secrets" but "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.Connection.Secrets". So the deny statement is useless and any user on the system can fetch the connection secrets. The same problem can be found in nm-system-settings. Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Ludwig Nussel for reporting this flaw responsibly.

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