---
id: CVE-2014-7231
aliases:
  - GHSA-v933-vx5p-j7w2
  - PYSEC-2026-892
title: OpenStack Oslo utility sensitive information exposure via log files
summary: OpenStack Oslo utility sensitive information exposure via log files
severity: low
vendor: oslo-utils
product: oslo-utils
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - oslo-utils < 0.2.0
patched:
  - oslo-utils 0.2.0
published: '2022-05-14'
updated: '2026-07-07'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-v933-vx5p-j7w2'
references:
  - url: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7231'
  - url: 'https://bugs.launchpad.net/oslo.utils/+bug/1345233'
  - url: 'https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96726'
  - url: 'https://github.com/openstack/oslo.utils'
  - url: 'http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1939.html'
  - url: 'http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/853'
  - url: 'http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70184'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
epss: 0.00532
epssPercentile: 0.43697
ingestedAt: '2026-07-08T18:25:53.280Z'
---

## Overview

The strutils.mask_password function in the OpenStack Oslo utility library, Cinder, Nova, and Trove before 2013.2.4 and 2014.1 before 2014.1.3 does not properly mask passwords when logging commands, which allows local users to obtain passwords by reading the log.

## Affected packages

- `oslo-utils < 0.2.0`

## Remediation

Upgrade to a patched release:

- `oslo-utils 0.2.0`