CVE-2022-1706

Summary

CVECVE-2022-1706
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-05-17 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:42:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability was found in Ignition where ignition configs are accessible from unprivileged containers in VMs running on VMware products. This issue is only relevant in user environments where the Ignition config contains secrets. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. Possible workaround is to not put secrets in the Ignition config.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-863

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 36 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Redhat Ignition All All All All
Application Redhat Openshift Container Platform 4.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Merge pull request #1350 from bgilbert/userdata · coreos/ignition@4b70b44 · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: ignition-2.14.0-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Delete userdata from VirtualBox/VMware after Ignition completes by bgilbert · Pull Request #1350 · coreos/ignition · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: ignition-2.14.0-1.fc36 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Consider deleting userdata from provider after Ignition completes · Issue #1315 · coreos/ignition · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: ignition-2.14.0-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: ignition-2.14.0-1.fc36 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Security when using vmware to store the ignition config? · Issue #1300 · coreos/ignition · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: ignition-2.14.0-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
2082274 – (CVE-2022-1706) CVE-2022-1706 ignition: configs are accessible from unprivileged containers in VMs running on VMware products MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: ignition-2.14.0-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160290 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for ignition (ELSA-2022-8126)
  • 183362 Debian Security Update for ignition (CVE-2022-1706)
  • 240607 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 Security Update (RHSA-2022:5068)
  • 240887 Red Hat Update for ignition security (RHSA-2022:8126)
  • 282762 Fedora Security Update for ignition (FEDORA-2022-7846cac830)
  • 282763 Fedora Security Update for ignition (FEDORA-2022-393948cc9e)
  • 282764 Fedora Security Update for ignition (FEDORA-2022-5df5dc8ec5)
  • 752492 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for systemd-presets-common-SUSE (SUSE-SU-2022:2866-1)
  • 770161 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1 Security Update (RHSA-2022:5068)
  • 940814 AlmaLinux Security Update for ignition (ALSA-2022:8126)
  • 960570 Rocky Linux Security Update for ignition (RLSA-2022:8126)
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