CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-21951

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Published: May 25, 2022 | Modified: Jul 26, 2023
CVSS 3.x
6.8
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
3.6 LOW
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information vulnerability in SUSE Rancher, Rancher allows attackers on the network to read and change network data due to missing encryption of data transmitted via the network when a cluster is created from an RKE template with the CNI value overridden This issue affects: SUSE Rancher Rancher versions prior to 2.5.14; Rancher versions prior to 2.6.5.

Weakness

The product transmits sensitive or security-critical data in cleartext in a communication channel that can be sniffed by unauthorized actors.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Rancher Suse 2.6.0 *
Rancher Suse 2.5.0 *

Extended Description

Many communication channels can be “sniffed” (monitored) by adversaries during data transmission. For example, in networking, packets can traverse many intermediary nodes from the source to the destination, whether across the internet, an internal network, the cloud, etc. Some actors might have privileged access to a network interface or any link along the channel, such as a router, but they might not be authorized to collect the underlying data. As a result, network traffic could be sniffed by adversaries, spilling security-critical data. Applicable communication channels are not limited to software products. Applicable channels include hardware-specific technologies such as internal hardware networks and external debug channels, supporting remote JTAG debugging. When mitigations are not applied to combat adversaries within the product’s threat model, this weakness significantly lowers the difficulty of exploitation by such adversaries. When full communications are recorded or logged, such as with a packet dump, an adversary could attempt to obtain the dump long after the transmission has occurred and try to “sniff” the cleartext from the recorded communications in the dump itself.

Potential Mitigations

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