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SUSE: CVE-2022-1706: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2022-1706: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/17/2022
Created
10/26/2022
Added
10/26/2022
Modified
10/26/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-ignition
  • suse-upgrade-ignition-dracut-grub2
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-presets-common-suse

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