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Red Hat OpenStack 16.1: RHSA-2021-2119-01 Critical Unprivileged Access Risk

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Calendar Grey May 26, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A critical patch release for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1, targeting vulnerabilities such as unauthorized file manipulation.
An update for tripleo-ansible is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 (Train)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Ansible project for TripleO.
Security Fix(es):
* ansible.log file is visible to unprivileged users (CVE-2021-31918)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section.
Changes to the tripleo-ansible component:
This update prevents Relax and Recover (ReaR) from automatically creating an unrequested backup. Previously, ReaR automatically created the cron file /etc/cron.d/rear, which ran a backup at 1:30 AM. This update prevents the automatic creation of the cron job. (BZ#1919174)

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Topics Covered

security advisory update important security impact file access important update Red Hat OpenStack system threat unprivileged access tripleo-ansible

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-31918 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1:
Source: tripleo-ansible-0.5.1-1.20210323173506.el8ost.src.rpm
noarch: tripleo-ansible-0.5.1-1.20210323173506.el8ost.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:2119-01
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2119
Issue date: 2021-05-26

Topic

An update for tripleo-ansible is now available for Red Hat OpenStackPlatform 16.1 (Train).Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update important security impact file access important update Red Hat OpenStack system threat unprivileged access tripleo-ansible

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1899404 - pacemaker and pcs shouldn't be required for ceph storage nodes

1905973 - LVM filter only runs if at least 1 item is passed in the Allowlist

1908266 - RHOSP 16.1 minor update fails because of release lock enforcement on Ceph nodes

1911891 - deployment takes a long time when being run manually on the undercloud with ansible-playbook

1916162 - tripleo-transfer can't transfer large databases

1917891 - Back up and Restore role failing to create a backup image

1919174 - Option to remove the self-installed ReaR cron task

1934379 - Ceph cluster is not healthy: auth entities with invalid capabilities

1949290 - cold migration and resize failing in nova-compute: ssh: Host key verification failed

1949398 - FFU tripleo-transfer role syncs a partial list of files creating an inconsistent database leading to mariadb segfaulting

1954250 - CVE-2021-31918 tripleo-ansible: ansible.log file is visible to unprivileged users

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