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Ekaterina Dimitrova commented on CASSANDRA-16669:
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Thank you all for your work!
For visibility and the sake of completeness:
* There is a failure in the Jenkins devbranch run which is because the branch
with the patch was not rebased so the
[patch|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/a0af091a5cbceeaa2b8f724b1790b61ef512b033]
for which the failing test was created was missing. No new failures introduced
by this patch. The post-commit is still running but the cqlsh tests are already
[successfully
completed|https://jenkins-cm4.apache.org/blue/organizations/jenkins/Cassandra-4.0.0/detail/Cassandra-4.0.0/27/pipeline].
*
{quote}{quote}And my feedback would be:
{quote} - Add a test case for {{CREATE /*password*/ ROLE bla bla}} which would
be a way to bypass
- In the future move to lexer/parser level obfuscation
- You can only hack the thing with useless stmnts like {{ALTER ROLE
alicepassword...}} that lead nowhere{quote}
These cases are covered in the latest patch as the patch is simple and drastic
at this point until we work on the mentioned improvement for 4.0.1, It simply
takes the DCL statement as a String and checks for password substring (upper
case, mixed case, and lower case covered) and then obfuscates everything after
it.
> Password obfuscation for DCL audit log statements
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-16669
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16669
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Tool/auditlogging
> Reporter: Vinay Chella
> Assignee: Sumanth Pasupuleti
> Priority: Normal
> Labels: audit, security
> Fix For: 4.0-rc, 4.0.x, 4.x
>
> Time Spent: 6h 10m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> The goal of this JIRA is to obfuscate passwords or any sensitive information
> from DCL audit log statements.
> Currently, (Cassandra version 4.0-rc1) logs query statements for any DCL
> ([ROLE|https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/cql/security.html#database-roles]
> and [USER|https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/cql/security.html#users] )
> queries with passwords in plaintext format in audit log files.
> The current workaround to avoid plain text passwords from being logged in
> audit log files is either by
> [excluding|https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/operating/audit_logging.html#options]
> DCL statements from auditing or by excluding the user who is creating these
> roles from auditing.
> It would be ideal for Cassandra to provide an option or default to obfuscate
> passwords or any sensitive information from DCL audit log statements.
> Sample audit logs with DCL queries
> {code:sh}
> Type: audit
> LogMessage:
> user:cassandra|host:localhost/127.0.0.1:7000|source:/127.0.0.1|port:51908|timestamp:1620190499676|type:CREATE_ROLE|category:DCL|operation:CREATE
> ROLE new_role;
> Type: audit
> LogMessage:
> user:cassandra|host:localhost/127.0.0.1:7000|source:/127.0.0.1|port:51908|timestamp:1620190505313|type:CREATE_ROLE|category:DCL|operation:CREATE
> ROLE alice WITH PASSWORD = 'password_a' AND LOGIN = true;
> Type: audit
> LogMessage:
> user:cassandra|host:localhost/127.0.0.1:7000|source:/127.0.0.1|port:51908|timestamp:1620190519521|type:REQUEST_FAILURE|category:ERROR|operation:ALTER
> ROLE bob WITH PASSWORD = 'PASSWORD_B' AND SUPERUSER = false;; bob doesn't
> exist
> Type: audit
> LogMessage:
> user:cassandra|host:localhost/127.0.0.1:7000|source:/127.0.0.1|port:51908|timestamp:1620190525376|type:CREATE_ROLE|category:DCL|operation:CREATE
> ROLE bob WITH PASSWORD = 'password_b' AND LOGIN = true AND SUPERUSER = true;
> Type: audit
> LogMessage:
> user:cassandra|host:localhost/127.0.0.1:7000|source:/127.0.0.1|port:51908|timestamp:1620190532462|type:ALTER_ROLE|category:DCL|operation:ALTER
> ROLE bob WITH PASSWORD = 'PASSWORD_B' AND SUPERUSER = false;
> {code}
> It is also ideal to document this workaround or assumption in Cassandra audit
> log documentation until we close this JIRA
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