Insufficiently protected credentials in Quay - CVE-2019-10205

 

Insufficiently protected credentials in Quay - CVE-2019-10205

Published: January 2, 2020 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU34916
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10205
CWE-ID: CWE-522
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Red Hat Inc.
Affected software:
Quay

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local privileged user to #BASIC_IMPACT#.

A flaw was found in the way Red Hat Quay stores robot account tokens in plain text. An attacker able to perform database queries in the Red Hat Quay database could use the tokens to read or write container images stored in the registry.


How to mitigate CVE-2019-10205

Install update from vendor's website.

Sources