CVE-2021-32001

Summary

CVECVE-2021-32001
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-07-28 10:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-11-14 19:30:00 UTC
DescriptionK3s in SUSE Rancher allows any user with direct access to the datastore, or a copy of a datastore backup, to extract the cluster's confidential keying material (cluster certificate authority private keys, secrets encryption configuration passphrase, etc.) and decrypt it, without having to know the token value. This issue affects: SUSE Rancher K3s version v1.19.12+k3s1, v1.20.8+k3s1, v1.21.2+k3s1 and prior versions; RKE2 version v1.19.12+rke2r1, v1.20.8+rke2r1, v1.21.2+rke2r1 and prior versions.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Suse Rancher K3s 1.19.12 All All All
Application Suse Rancher K3s 1.20.8 All All All
Application Suse Rancher K3s 1.21.2 All All All
Application Suse Rancher Rke2 1.19.12 All All All
Application Suse Rancher Rke2 1.20.8 All All All
Application Suse Rancher Rke2 1.21.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug 1188453 – CVE-2021-32001: K3s/RKE2 bootstrap data is encrypted with empty string if user does not supply a token CONFIRM bugzilla.suse.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 502106 Alpine Linux Security Update for k3s
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