🛡️ CVE-2018-16856 — octavia

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-532 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Openstack Octavia allows Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

In a default Red Hat Openstack Platform Director installation, openstack-octavia before versions openstack-octavia 2.0.2-5 and openstack-octavia-3.0.1-0.20181009115732 creates log files that are readable by all users. Sensitive information such as private keys can appear in these log files allowing for information exposure.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2018-16856 is classified as CWE-532: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. Sensitive values are written to logs, which are typically kept longer and read more widely than the data warrants.

Affected software

CVE-2018-16856 is recorded against 1 package.

  • octavia (from 3.0.0.0b1 up to 3.1.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2022 and last revised on 7 October 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-532
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-10-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
octavia 3.0.0.0b1 3.1.0

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