CVE-2021-3917
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-23 19:03
Modified
2024-08-03 17:09
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3917Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2018478Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/coreos/coreos-installer/commit/2a36405339c87b16ed6c76e91ad5b76638fbdb0cPatch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/889Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3917Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2018478Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/coreos/coreos-installer/commit/2a36405339c87b16ed6c76e91ad5b76638fbdb0cPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/889Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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