Vulnerability · Published Oct 29, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2022-44020
Medium 5.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the sushy-tools package (PyPI). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 15% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 84.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
An issue was discovered in OpenStack Sushy-Tools through 0.21.0 and VirtualBMC through 2.2.2. Changing the boot device configuration with these packages removes password protection from the managed libvirt XML domain. NOTE: this only affects an "unsupported, production-like configuration."
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | sushy-tools | 0.21.1 | GHSA-5pj3-6fqm-8m7m |
| PyPI | sushy-tools | 0.21.1 | PYSEC-2026-3079 |
| PyPI | virtualbmc | 3.0.0 | GHSA-5pj3-6fqm-8m7m |
| PyPI | virtualbmc | 3.0.0 | PYSEC-2026-1059 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-281 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N