CVE-2022-45157

Exposure of vSphere's CPI and CSI credentials in Rancher

Published: Nov 13, 2024Updated: Nov 13, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-522

9.1CRITICAL

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in the way that Rancher stores vSphere's CPI (Cloud Provider Interface) and CSI (Container Storage Interface) credentials used to deploy clusters through the vSphere cloud provider. This issue leads to the vSphere CPI and CSI passwords being stored in a plaintext object inside Rancher. This vulnerability is only applicable to users that deploy clusters in vSphere environments.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:LPrivileges Required

Low

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:CScope

Changed

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:LIntegrity

Low

A:LAvailability

Low

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Weaknesses

CWE-522

Affected Products

SUSE

commercial·DE

rancherOn-prem

DevTools & CI / ci-cd

package-ecosystem

github.com/rancher/rancher

OSS Libraries

Rancher Labs

commercialaka rancher, rke, rke2

RancherMixed

Cloud & SaaS / container-orchestration

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques

Credential Access

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References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2022-45157

bugzilla.suse.com

https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-xj7w-r753-vj8v

github.com

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-45157

nvd.nist.gov

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