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CVE-2022-3287

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-09-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-256

Description

When creating an OPERATOR user account on the BMC, the redfish plugin saved the auto-generated password to /etc/fwupd/redfish.conf without proper restriction, allowing any user on the system to read the same configuration file.

Affected products

• fwupd: before 1.8.5 — fixed in 1.8.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: fwupd 1.8.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/commit/ea676855f2119e36d433fbd2ed604039f53b2091
• https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/commit/ea676855f2119e36d433fbd2ed604039f53b2091

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