Subiquity Shows Guided Storage Passphrase in Plaintext with Read-all Permissions
Weakness
The product stores a password in plaintext within resources such as memory or files.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subiquity | Canonical | * | 22.02.1 (excluding) |
| Subiquity | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Subiquity | Ubuntu | esm-apps/bionic | * |
| Subiquity | Ubuntu | esm-apps/focal | * |
| Subiquity | Ubuntu | esm-apps/jammy | * |
| Subiquity | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Subiquity | Ubuntu | impish | * |
| Subiquity | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Subiquity | Ubuntu | kinetic | * |
| Subiquity | Ubuntu | lunar | * |
| Subiquity | Ubuntu | snap | * |
| Subiquity | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
Potential Mitigations
References
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/subiquity/+bug/1960162
- https://github.com/canonical/subiquity/pull/1181
- https://github.com/canonical/subiquity/pull/1182
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0555
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/subiquity/+bug/1960162
- https://github.com/canonical/subiquity/pull/1181
- https://github.com/canonical/subiquity/pull/1182
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0555