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CVE-2023-30841

Ironic and ironic-inspector deployed within Baremetal Operator may expose as ConfigMaps

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: April 26, 2023 at 06:24 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 05:55 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsBaremetal OperatorBaremetal Operator

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Baremetal Operator· Linuxfoundation
95%
v < 0.3.0
Affected range stops below 0.3.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Baremetal Operator· METAL3 Io
60%
v < 0.3.0
Affected range stops below 0.3.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (2)

x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/pull/1241
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/security/advisories/GHSA-9wh7-397j-722m

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

5.5MEDIUM[email protected]
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-200CWE-319

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