CVE-2021-3917 (GCVE-0-2021-3917)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-23 19:03
Modified
2024-08-03 17:09
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-276 - - Incorrect Default Permissions
Summary
A flaw was found in the coreos-installer, where it writes the Ignition config to the target system with world-readable access permissions. This flaw allows a local attacker to have read access to potentially sensitive data. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a coreos-installer Version: Fixed in coreos-installer 0.10.0
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