CVE-2021-3917
Estado: ModificadaMedia (5.5)—
A flaw was found in the coreos-installer, where it writes the Ignition config to the target system with world-readable access permissions. This flaw allows a local attacker to have read access to potentially sensitive data. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Puntuación base: 5.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.23%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 13
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-276
- CWE-276
Referencias
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3917
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2018478
- https://github.com/coreos/coreos-installer/commit/2a36405339c87b16ed6c76e91ad5b76638fbdb0c
- https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/889
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3917
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2018478
- https://github.com/coreos/coreos-installer/commit/2a36405339c87b16ed6c76e91ad5b76638fbdb0c
- https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/889
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