VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-3917

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.24%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2022-08-23
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-276
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-276

Primary references