Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information Affecting virtualbmc package, versions [,3.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-VIRTUALBMC-3091007
  • published30 Oct 2022
  • disclosed30 Oct 2022
  • creditJulia Kreger from Redhat

Introduced: 30 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-44020  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-922  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade virtualbmc to version 3.0.0 or higher.

Overview

virtualbmc is a Create virtual BMCs for controlling virtual instances via IPMI

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information when deploying in an unsupported, production-like configuration, secret data, including VNC passwords, can be removed permanently from a libvirt domain, leaving the libvirt VM's exposed to a malicious console user.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1