CVE - CVE-2021-3917

CVE-ID
CVE-2021-3917	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
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MISC:https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3917 URL:https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3917 MISC:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2018478 URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2018478 MISC:https://github.com/coreos/coreos-installer/commit/2a36405339c87b16ed6c76e91ad5b76638fbdb0c URL:https://github.com/coreos/coreos-installer/commit/2a36405339c87b16ed6c76e91ad5b76638fbdb0c MISC:https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/889 URL:https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/889
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20211101	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20211101)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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