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PYSEC-2026-892

OpenStack Oslo utility sensitive information exposure via log files

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-892 — oslo-utils: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'oslo-utils>=0.2.0'

Details

The strutils.mask_password function in the OpenStack Oslo utility library, Cinder, Nova, and Trove before 2013.2.4 and 2014.1 before 2014.1.3 does not properly mask passwords when logging commands, which allows local users to obtain passwords by reading the log.

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Affected packages

PyPI/oslo-utils

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.2.0

Fixpip install --upgrade 'oslo-utils>=0.2.0'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7231[ADVISORY]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/oslo.utils/+bug/1345233[WEB]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96726[WEB]
https://github.com/openstack/oslo.utils[PACKAGE]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1939.html[WEB]
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/853[WEB]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70184[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/oslo-utils[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v933-vx5p-j7w2[ADVISORY]