CVE-2022-1706A vulnerability was found in Ignition where ignition configs are accessible from unprivileged containers in VMs running on VMware…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 1.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 31% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A vulnerability was found in Ignition where ignition configs are accessible from unprivileged containers in VMs running on VMware products. This issue is only relevant in user environments where the Ignition config contains secrets. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. Possible workaround is to not put secrets in the Ignition config.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 4 days later
· 4 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
coreos/ignition
- affected Fixed in coreos/ignition v2.14.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/coreos/ignitionGHSA-hj57-j5cw-2mwp (opens in a new tab)
- Gogithub.com/coreos/ignition/v2GHSA-hj57-j5cw-2mwp (opens in a new tab)
References
References8
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2082274 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/coreos/ignition/issues/1300 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/coreos/ignition/issues/1315 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/coreos/ignition/pull/1350 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/coreos/ignition/commit/4b70b44b430ecf8377a276e89b5acd3a6957d4ea (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-393948cc9e (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-7846cac830 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-5df5dc8ec5 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-4168 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hj57-j5cw-2mwp (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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