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Sumanth Pasupuleti commented on CASSANDRA-16669:
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[~stefan.miklosovic] Thank you. Meanwhile, here is the patch against 
QueryEvents that would apply obfuscation to all the listeners like AuditLogger 
and FullQueryLogger. 
All UTs and JVMDtests pass except for one that seems unrelated 
(incompletePropose jvm dtest failed with timeout)
https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/sumanth-pasupuleti/cassandra?branch=feature%2FCASSANDRA-16669-queryevents-ut

> Password obfuscation for DCL audit log statements
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-16669
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16669
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Tool/auditlogging
>            Reporter: Vinay Chella
>            Assignee: Sumanth Pasupuleti
>            Priority: Normal
>              Labels: audit, security
>             Fix For: 4.0-rc, 4.0.x, 4.x
>
>          Time Spent: 1.5h
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> The goal of this JIRA is to obfuscate passwords or any sensitive information 
> from DCL audit log statements.
> Currently, (Cassandra version 4.0-rc1) logs query statements for any DCL 
> ([ROLE|https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/cql/security.html#database-roles]
>  and [USER|https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/cql/security.html#users] ) 
> queries with passwords in plaintext format in audit log files.
> The current workaround to avoid plain text passwords from being logged in 
> audit log files is either by 
> [excluding|https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/operating/audit_logging.html#options]
>  DCL statements from auditing or by excluding the user who is creating these 
> roles from auditing.
> It would be ideal for Cassandra to provide an option or default to obfuscate 
> passwords or any sensitive information from DCL audit log statements.
> Sample audit logs with DCL queries
> {code:sh}
> Type: audit
> LogMessage: 
> user:cassandra|host:localhost/127.0.0.1:7000|source:/127.0.0.1|port:51908|timestamp:1620190499676|type:CREATE_ROLE|category:DCL|operation:CREATE
>  ROLE new_role;
> Type: audit
> LogMessage: 
> user:cassandra|host:localhost/127.0.0.1:7000|source:/127.0.0.1|port:51908|timestamp:1620190505313|type:CREATE_ROLE|category:DCL|operation:CREATE
>  ROLE alice WITH PASSWORD = 'password_a' AND LOGIN = true;
> Type: audit
> LogMessage: 
> user:cassandra|host:localhost/127.0.0.1:7000|source:/127.0.0.1|port:51908|timestamp:1620190519521|type:REQUEST_FAILURE|category:ERROR|operation:ALTER
>  ROLE bob WITH PASSWORD = 'PASSWORD_B' AND SUPERUSER = false;; bob doesn't 
> exist
> Type: audit
> LogMessage: 
> user:cassandra|host:localhost/127.0.0.1:7000|source:/127.0.0.1|port:51908|timestamp:1620190525376|type:CREATE_ROLE|category:DCL|operation:CREATE
>  ROLE bob WITH PASSWORD = 'password_b' AND LOGIN = true AND SUPERUSER = true;
> Type: audit
> LogMessage: 
> user:cassandra|host:localhost/127.0.0.1:7000|source:/127.0.0.1|port:51908|timestamp:1620190532462|type:ALTER_ROLE|category:DCL|operation:ALTER
>  ROLE bob WITH PASSWORD = 'PASSWORD_B' AND SUPERUSER = false;
> {code}
> It is also ideal to document this workaround or assumption in Cassandra audit 
> log documentation until we close this JIRA



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