CVE-2023-30841

MEDIUM

Baremetal Operator < 0.3.0 - Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information via ConfigMap Storage

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Baremetal Operator (BMO) is a bare metal host provisioning integration for Kubernetes. Prior to version 0.3.0, ironic and ironic-inspector deployed within Baremetal Operator using the included `deploy.sh` store their `.htpasswd` files as ConfigMaps instead of Secrets. This causes the plain-text username and hashed password to be readable by anyone having a cluster-wide read-access to the management cluster, or access to the management cluster's Etcd storage. This issue is patched in baremetal-operator PR#1241, and is included in BMO release 0.3.0 onwards. As a workaround, users may modify the kustomizations and redeploy the BMO, or recreate the required ConfigMaps as Secrets per instructions in baremetal-operator PR#1241.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/pull/1241

Scores

CVSS v3 6.0
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 5.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-319 CWE-200
Status published
Products (2)
linuxfoundation/baremetal_operator < 0.3.0
metal3-io/baremetal-operator 0 - 0.3.0Go
Published Apr 26, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026