In Manila, we've discussed migrating off of rootwrap, to privsep - and are yet to find an owner to complete that work. We'll hopefully do that soon. However, I agree this bug is wide open. We'll use a different tracker to call out the tasks to deprecate the usage of rootwrap.
** Changed in: manila Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1700501 Title: Insecure rootwrap usage Status in Cinder: New Status in OpenStack Shared File Systems Service (Manila): Invalid Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): Incomplete Status in OpenStack Security Advisory: Won't Fix Bug description: Reported by Benjamin Deuter of SUSE: Some rootwrap filters are too permissive and allow privilege escalation from service user, as explained here: https://security.openstack.org/guidelines/dg_use-oslo-rootwrap- securely.html#incorrect For example this shouldn't be authorized: sudo nova-rootwrap /etc/nova/rootwrap.conf chmod 777 /etc/shadow To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cinder/+bug/1700501/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp