CVE-2021-3684
A vulnerability was found in OpenShift Assisted Installer. During generation of the Discovery ISO, image pull secrets were leaked as…
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- redhat
Description
A vulnerability was found in OpenShift Assisted Installer. During generation of the Discovery ISO, image pull secrets were leaked as plaintext in the installation logs. An authenticated user could exploit this by re-using the image pull secret to pull container images from the registry as the associated user.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 20 months later
· 20 months later
Published
- 23 months later
· 23 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.25% · top 84% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
assisted-installer
- affected openshift/assisted-installer 1.0.25.1, openshift/assisted-installer 2.0.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/openshift/assisted-installerGHSA-g8xm-p2h4-v6jp (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1985962 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/openshift/assisted-installer/commit/f3800cfa3d64ce6dcd6f7b73f0578bb99bfdaf7a (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/openshift/assisted-installer/commit/2403dad3795406f2c5d923af0894e07bc8b0bdc4 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-g8xm-p2h4-v6jp (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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