CVE-2023-30841 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Baremetal-operator

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information ExposureCWE-319 — Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Info4 documents4 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 96.50%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Metal3-io Baremetal-operatorGithub.com Metal3-io Baremetal-operatorLinuxfoundation Baremetal Operator
Timeline
PublishedApr 26
Latest updateApr 27

Description

Baremetal Operator (BMO) is a bare metal host provisioning integration for Kubernetes. Prior to version 0.3.0, ironic and ironic-inspector deployed within Baremetal Operator using the included `deploy.sh` store their `.htpasswd` files as ConfigMaps instead of Secrets. This causes the plain-text username and hashed password to be readable by anyone having a cluster-wide read-access to the management cluster, or access to the management cluster's Etcd storage. This issue is patched in baremetal-op…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶CVEListV5metal3-io/baremetal-operator< 0.3.0

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
Ironic and ironic-inspector may expose as ConfigMaps↗2023-04-26
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OSV
Ironic and ironic-inspector may expose as ConfigMaps↗2023-04-26
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
baremetal-operator: plain-text username and hashed password readable by anyone having a cluster-wide read-access↗2023-04-27
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