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Vulnerability · Published May 17, 2022 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2022-1706

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity incorrect authorization in coreos/ignition. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.3% (higher than 71% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.3%top 29.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:9ignition2.14.0-1.el9ALSA-2022:8126
Debian:12ignition2.14.0+ds1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1706
Debian:13ignition2.14.0+ds1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1706
Debian:14ignition2.14.0+ds1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1706
Gogithub.com/coreos/ignitionno fix listedGO-2022-0451
Gogithub.com/coreos/ignition2.14.0GHSA-hj57-j5cw-2mwp
Gogithub.com/coreos/ignition/v22.14.0GHSA-hj57-j5cw-2mwp
Gogithub.com/coreos/ignition/v22.14.0GO-2022-0451
Rocky Linux:9ignition0:2.14.0-1.el9RLSA-2022:8126
Ubuntu:25.10ignitionno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-1706
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSignitionno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-1706
Ubuntu:26.10ignitionno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-1706

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a coreos/ignition Fixed in coreos/ignition v2.14.0

Weakness: CWE-863

References