Libvirt / RBD infomation leakage

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

We noticed an information leakage vulnerability with the libvirt daemon using RBD. As a non-privileged user (with wheel privileges) you can run "ps –ef | grep libvirt" and you will see the below output. In this you can see libvirt using the ceph key as part of the command to run the VM, as a non-privileged user I can now start to mess with ceph because I now have the auth key.

qemu     13924     1 33 Dec10 ?        2-23:31:12 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.1.0 -enable-kvm -m 8000 -smp 8,sockets=8,cores=1,threads=1 -name os-network -uuid f0ede7e8-c15a-4813-900e-971988d494c1 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/os-network.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive file=rbd:mgmt/os-network:id=libvirt:**key=AQA/H4dUwLYnORAAhWv2E+67eN72ue3rrl2klg==**:auth_supported=cephx none,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,cache=writeback -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x9,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=21,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=27 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:64:92:b6,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -netdev tap,fd=28,id=hostnet1,vhost=on,vhostfd=29 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet1,id=net1,mac=52:54:00:f7:50:e2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -netdev tap,fd=30,id=hostnet2,vhost=on,vhostfd=31 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet2,id=net2,mac=52:54:00:14:3b:33,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -netdev tap,fd=32,id=hostnet3,vhost=on,vhostfd=33 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet3,id=net3,mac=52:54:00:fd:86:aa,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:5 -vga cirrus -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7

Environment

  • Ceph
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • libvirt

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