Password pattern matchig in logs

Richie Rees February 6, 2019

How does the password log obviscation work, does this simply mask anything that uses the variable name, or does it mask anything that has the value of the password ?

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Steffen Opel _Utoolity_
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February 7, 2019

The Bamboo password log obfuscation indeed masks anything that has the value of any password variable in the executing build/deployment context, which can have confusing effects for simple 'password' values that by chance occur elsewhere in the log as well, for example:

Say you have a global variable ${bamboo.defaultAdminPassword} with a value of 'admin' so that you can automate logging into Atlassian products started with the SDK's atlas-run-standalone command via the Bamboo Script task.

Using that password variable directly (e.g. for a REST API call) will properly yield a value masked with '********' in the log. However, if you also put an 'echo "Logging in as administrator ..."' command on top of the script, you will get a log output of "Logging in as ********istrator ...".

Put another way, anywhere the phrase 'admin' is contained in a log line, it will be masked as '********' because it happens to also be the value of a password variable.

 

From a technical perspective this is implemented via class PasswordMaskingLogMutator, which uses class PasswordMaskingUtils in turn. If you are curious and a licensee you can access the Bamboo source code to see exactly how this works.

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Gonchik Tsymzhitov
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February 6, 2019

Hi! 

 

As I see yes,

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-18142

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-14876

 

In our instance we just set variable with name something.password

Hope it helps

 

Cheers,

Gonchik Tsymzhitov

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