Insufficiently protected credentials in Pulp plugin for Ansible - CVE-2022-3644

 

Insufficiently protected credentials in Pulp plugin for Ansible - CVE-2022-3644

Published: November 27, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU83506
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3644
CWE-ID: CWE-522
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Pulp
Affected software:
Pulp plugin for Ansible

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to pulp_ansible stores tokens in plaintext instead of using pulp's encrypted field and exposes them in read/write mode via the API () instead of marking it as write only. A local user can obtain credentials of Ansible users.



How to mitigate CVE-2022-3644

Install updates from vendor's website.

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