webapp secret keys should be regenerated during installation

Bug #337612 reported by Alon Swartz
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
TurnKey Linux
Fix Released
High
Alon Swartz
2009.02-hardy-x86
New
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Some TurnKey appliances (joomla, mediawiki, django, rails) are vulnerable to a cryptographic weakness due to the usage of a non-secret key.

The secret keys are mainly used in generating/verifying cookie session data.

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Alon Swartz (alonswartz) wrote :

All appliances in the 2009.02 release include this fix.

It is recommended to regenerate the secret key on existing installations of appliances released prior to 2009.02

Joomla
    variable: $secret
    path: /etc/joomla15/configuration.php

Mediawiki
    variable: $wgSecretKey
    path: /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php

Django
    variable: SECRET_KEY
    path: /var/www/django-sites/apps/settings.py

Rails
    variable: :secret
    path: /var/www/railsapp/config/environment.rb

Changed in turnkeylinux:
assignee: nobody → alonswartz
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Fix Released
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