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RHSA-2024:9978

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2024-11-21 09:31 - Updated: 2025-11-21 19:17
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHOSP 17.1.4 (openstack-tripleo-heat-templates) security update
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Topic: An update for openstack-tripleo-heat-templates is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) 17.1 (Wallaby). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Details: Heat templates for TripleO Security Fix(es): * cleartext passwords exposed in logs (CVE-2024-4840) 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.
Terms of Use: This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.

An flaw was found in the OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) director, a toolset for installing and managing a complete RHOSP environment. Plaintext passwords may be stored in log files, which can expose sensitive information to anyone with access to the logs.

CWE-312 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: 9Base-RHOS-17.1:openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-0:14.3.1-17.1.20240919130756.el9ost.noarch
Vendor Fix fix
Unresolved product id: 9Base-RHOS-17.1:openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-0:14.3.1-17.1.20240919130756.el9ost.src
Vendor Fix fix
Threats
Impact Moderate
References
URL Category
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