CVE-2022-0718

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-08-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-522

Description

A flaw was found in python-oslo-utils. Due to improper parsing, passwords with a double quote ( " ) in them cause incorrect masking in debug logs, causing any part of the password after the double quote to be plaintext.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 10.0, 11.0
OpenStack Oslo.Utils: before 4.10.1; 4.12.0 — fixed in 4.10.1
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 4.0
nova_libvirt container provided by the Red Hat OpenStack Platform: 16.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenStack Oslo.Utils 4.10.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0718
https://bugs.launchpad.net/oslo.utils/+bug/1949623
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2056850
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00015.html
https://opendev.org/openstack/oslo.utils/commit/6e17ae1f7959c64dfd20a5f67edf422e702426aa
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-0718
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0718
https://bugs.launchpad.net/oslo.utils/+bug/1949623
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2056850
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00015.html
https://opendev.org/openstack/oslo.utils/commit/6e17ae1f7959c64dfd20a5f67edf422e702426aa
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-0718

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