CVE-2021-20319

high

Description

An improper signature verification vulnerability was found in coreos-installer. A specially crafted gzip installation image can bypass the image signature verification and as a consequence can lead to the installation of unsigned content. An attacker able to modify the original installation image can write arbitrary data, and achieve full access to the node being installed.

References

https://github.com/coreos/coreos-installer/security/advisories/GHSA-3r3g-g73x-g593

https://github.com/coreos/coreos-installer/pull/659/commits/ad243c6f0eff2835b2da56ca5f7f33af76253c89

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2011862

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-03-04

Updated: 2022-03-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High