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CVE-2022-1706
A vulnerability was found in Ignition where ignition configs are accessible from unprivileged containers in VMs running on VMware…
Medium6.5EPSS 1.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
A 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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
coreos/ignition
- affected Fixed in coreos/ignition v2.14.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/coreos/ignitionGHSA-hj57-j5cw-2mwp (opens in a new tab)
- Gogithub.com/coreos/ignition/v2GHSA-hj57-j5cw-2mwp (opens in a new tab)
References (8)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2082274 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/coreos/ignition/issues/1300 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/coreos/ignition/issues/1315 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/coreos/ignition/pull/1350 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/coreos/ignition/commit/4b70b44b430ecf8377a276e89b5acd3a6957d4ea (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-393948cc9e (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-7846cac830 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-5df5dc8ec5 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_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-hj57-j5cw-2mwp (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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