On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 01:03:54PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 15 September 2017 at 12:40, Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > IIUC, the public part of the key gets exposed to the guest images via
> > cloud-init metadata. During boot the guest read this metadata and add
> > the public key to authorized_keys. The private key is used by the test
> > suite on the host so that it can now login to the guests.
> >
> > So the risk here is that if these guests were exposed to the LAN in any
> > way, someone could grab our private key and login to these guests.
> >
> > What saves us is that the VMs are run with user mode slirp networking
> > so AFAICT, aren't exposed to the LAN.
> 
> If I'm reading the right bit of the script we run QEMU with a
> hostfwd specification using 0.0.0.0 as the host part -- doesn't
> that listen on all interfaces including the LAN ones?

Actually yes, you are right, my bad.

That needs to be fixed to use 127.0.0.1 for sure.

Regards,
Daniel
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