CVE-2024-4840 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00051.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Redhat	Openstack

No data.

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 for RHEL 9
openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-0:14.3.1-17.1.20240919130756.el9ost	cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:17.1::el9	RHSA-2024:9978	2024-11-21T00:00:00Z

No data.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9978
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-4840
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280249
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4840
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4840

History

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 05:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 04:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs	~~cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:17.1~~
References		https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9978

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs		cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:17.1::el9

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2024-05-13T22:16:39.899Z

Updated: 2025-08-30T16:05:28.774Z

Reserved: 2024-05-13T16:34:02.118Z

Link: CVE-2024-4840

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:55:09.958Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-14T15:45:17.310

Modified: 2024-11-25T05:15:11.437

Link: CVE-2024-4840

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-4840 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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