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CVE-2022-1706

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-05-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-863

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.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35, 36
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 9.0
• RedHat Ignition: before 2.14.0 — fixed in 2.14.0
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 4.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: RedHat Ignition 2.14.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2082274
• https://github.com/coreos/ignition/commit/4b70b44b430ecf8377a276e89b5acd3a6957d4ea
• https://github.com/coreos/ignition/issues/1300
• https://github.com/coreos/ignition/issues/1315
• https://github.com/coreos/ignition/pull/1350
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LY7LKGMQMXV6DGD263YQHNSLOJJ5VLV5/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NP765L7TJI7CD4XVOHUWZVRYRH3FYBOR/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T5QQXRGQKTN4YX2ZF3GQNEBDEOKJGCN3/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2082274
• https://github.com/coreos/ignition/commit/4b70b44b430ecf8377a276e89b5acd3a6957d4ea
• https://github.com/coreos/ignition/issues/1300
• https://github.com/coreos/ignition/issues/1315

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