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CVE-2021-20319

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-20319 describes an improper signature verification vulnerability in coreos-installer, affecting Red Hat coreos-installer. An attacker could craft a malicious gzip installation image to bypass signature verification, leading to the installation of unsigned content. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a local attack vector and user interaction required. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:coreos-installer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0052 is in the 41st percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6Fixed in: coreos-installer-0:0.6.0-4.rhaos4.6.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8Fixed in: coreos-installer-0:0.9.0-7.rhaos4.8.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9Fixed in: coreos-installer-0:0.10.1-1.rhaos4.9.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7Fixed in: coreos-installer-0:0.8.0-4.rhaos4.7.el8
View patch
rustpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: coreos-installerFixed in: 0.10.1
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

rustGHSA-3r3g-g73x-g593high

coreos-installer improperly verifies GPG signature when decompressing gzipped artifact

Oct 12, 2021
redhatCVE-2021-20319Moderate

coreos-installer: incorrect signature verification on gzip-compressed install images

Oct 7, 2021

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
github.com / coreos/coreos-installer/pull/659/commits/ad243c6f0eff2835b2da56ca5f7f33af76253c89
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / coreos/coreos-installer/security/advisories/GHSA-3r3g-g73x-g593
Third Party Advisory