Vulnerability · Published Jun 15, 2022 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2022-31044Plaintext Storage of Keys and Passwords in Rundeck and PagerDuty Process Automation

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in rundeck from rundeck. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 53% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 46.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Rundeck is an open source automation service with a web console, command line tools and a WebAPI. The Key Storage converter plugin mechanism was not enabled correctly in Rundeck 4.2.0 and 4.2.1, resulting in use of the encryption layer for Key Storage possibly not working. Any credentials created or overwritten using Rundeck 4.2.0 or 4.2.1 might result in them being written in plaintext to the backend storage. This affects those using any `Storage Converter` plugin. Rundeck 4.3.1 and 4.2.2 have fixed the code and upon upgrade will re-encrypt any plain text values. Version 4.3.0 does not have the vulnerability, but does not include the patch to re-encrypt plain text values if 4.2.0 or 4.2.1 were used. To prevent plaintext credentials from being stored in Rundeck 4.2.0/4.2.1, write access to key storage can be disabled via ACLs. After upgrading to 4.3.1 or later, write access can be restored.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Mavenorg.rundeck:rundeck4.2.2GHSA-hprf-rrwq-jm5c
Mavenorg.rundeck:rundeck4.3.1GHSA-hprf-rrwq-jm5c

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
rundeck rundeck >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.2

Weakness: CWE-256, CWE-522 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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