The following is a list of known EdgeX security issues and vulnerabilities – and any associated Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) reports to accompany the issue. CVE is a program for identifying, cataloging and addressing software and firmware vulnerabilities (see https://cve.mitre.org/). Nationally, the federal government runs the CVE program to help build a free, standardized list or dictionary of security vulnerabilities for organizations to use to improve their software’s exposure and posture to security threats.
EdgeX grades security issues on the CVSS(Common Vulnerability Scoring System) scale. The four levels are critical, high, medium and low level issues.
| Component | Description | Severity | Affected Releases | Issue Link | Fix Timeline | Resolution/Mitigation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Database - MongoDB | MongoDB is one of the data persistence solutions useable in EdgeX. The MongoDB 3.4.9 container base image has known vulnerabilities stemming from its underlying base Linux image and some from MongoDB source itself.. | Medium | Delhi Edinburgh | https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-12752/product_id-25450/version_id-229891/Mongodb-Mongodb-3.4.9.html | Fuji | Pulling 4.0-xenial MongoDB package, which starts with a Debian base image that does not include a host of insecurities spanning Perl, OpenSSL etc, and some MongoDB specific fixes. https://github.com/edgexfoundry/docker-edgex-mongo/commit/2c86e5e4359367177dc339556604c3af6fb9ee2a |
Database access credentials in the clear | MongoDB and Redis are the available data persistence layers in EdgeX. While the access credentials (username and password) are in the clear for MongoDB, located in the configuration service (aka Consul) or on the local file system, Redis defaults to no authentication. | High | Delhi Edinburgh | Fuji | EdgeX-using organizations should turn on the database access controls and institute a means to secure the data access credentials provided to the services. The issue has been resolved in EdgeX Fuji with credentials being created on the fly, saved in Vault and used during setup. Requires user to set secure mode on. | |
| Go net package vulnerabilities | net/http: Denial of Service vulnerabilities (ping and reset) in the HTTP/2 implementation and net/url in Go before 1.11.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.8 mishandles malformed hosts in URLs, leading to an authorization bypass in some applications. This is related to a Host field with a suffix appearing in neither Hostname() nor Port(), and is related to a non-numeric port number. | High, High, Critical | Delhi Edinburgh | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9512 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9514 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14809 CVE-2019-9512 and CVE-2019-9514, and Go issue golang.org/issue/33606. net/url: parsing validation issue CVE-2019-14809 and Go issue golang.org/issue/29098. | Fuji | |