CVE-2015-9543
Description
An issue was discovered in OpenStack Nova before 18.2.4, 19.x before 19.1.0, and 20.x before 20.1.0. It can leak consoleauth tokens into log files. An attacker with read access to the service's logs may obtain tokens used for console access. All Nova setups using novncproxy are affected. This is related to NovaProxyRequestHandlerBase.new_websocket_client in console/websocketproxy.py.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2:20.1.1-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 2:20.1.1-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 2:20.1.1-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2:20.1.1-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2:20.1.1-1 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-9543
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/08f1f914cc219cf526adfb08c46b8f40b4e78232
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/26d4047e17eba9bc271f8868f1d0ffeec97b555e
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/d8fbf04f325f593836f8d44b6bbf42b85bde94e3
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1492140
- https://review.opendev.org/220622
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2020-001.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/19/2
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-9543.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-9543
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.