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CVE-2022-44020
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2022-10-30 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-281
Description
An issue was discovered in OpenStack Sushy-Tools through 0.21.0 and VirtualBMC through 2.2.2. Changing the boot device configuration with these packages removes password protection from the managed libvirt XML domain. NOTE: this only affects an "unsupported, production-like configuration."
Affected products
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 35, 36, 37
- Opendev Sushy-Tools: before 0.21.1 — fixed in 0.21.1
- Opendev Virtualbmc: before 3.0.0 — fixed in 3.0.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Opendev Sushy-Tools 0.21.1; Opendev Virtualbmc 3.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GAD7QJIUWPCKJIGYP7PPHH5DILOEONFE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KEQVJF3OQGSDCSQTQQSC54JEGLMSNB4Q/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QMSUGS4B6EBRHBJMTRXL5RIKJTZTEMJC/
- https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/sushy-tools/+/862625
- https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/virtualbmc/+/862620
- https://storyboard.openstack.org/#%21/story/2010382
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GAD7QJIUWPCKJIGYP7PPHH5DILOEONFE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KEQVJF3OQGSDCSQTQQSC54JEGLMSNB4Q/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QMSUGS4B6EBRHBJMTRXL5RIKJTZTEMJC/
- https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/sushy-tools/+/862625
- https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/virtualbmc/+/862620
- https://storyboard.openstack.org/#%21/story/2010382
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