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CVE-2021-3917

Medium

Description

A flaw was found in the coreos-installer, where it writes the Ignition config to the target system with world-readable access permissions. This flaw allows a local attacker to have read access to potentially sensitive data. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductRedhat Coreos-installer
PublishedAug 23, 2022
First seenAug 23, 2022
Weakness typeCWE-276CWE-276

How to fix

Update
  • redhat coreos-installer0.10.0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
redhat coreos-installerv < 0.10.00.10.0

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