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CVE-2023-30841

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-30841 is a medium-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting Baremetal Operator (BMO) versions prior to 0.3.0. The vulnerability stems from ironic and ironic-inspector storing .htpasswd files as ConfigMaps instead of Secrets, exposing plain-text usernames and hashed passwords to anyone with cluster-wide read access or Etcd storage access. This issue has a CVSS score of 5.5, indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local access, with a high impact on confidentiality. While patched in BMO 0.3.0, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:baremetal_operator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.0MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.5
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
9.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0019 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
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gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operatorFixed in: 0.3.0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12Fixed in: openshift4/topology-aware-lifecycle-manager-operator-bundle:v4.12.8-17
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12Fixed in: openshift4/topology-aware-lifecycle-manager-precache-rhel8:v4.12.8-4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12Fixed in: openshift4/topology-aware-lifecycle-manager-recovery-rhel8:v4.12.8-4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12Fixed in: openshift4/topology-aware-lifecycle-manager-rhel8-operator:v4.12.8-4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12Fixed in: openshift4/ztp-site-generate-rhel8:v4.12.6-18
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13Fixed in: openshift4/ose-baremetal-rhel8-operator:v4.13.0-202305021616.p0.ge037aa0.assembly.stream
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14Fixed in: openshift4/topology-aware-lifecycle-manager-rhel8-operator:v4.14.0-68
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4Fixed in: odf4/odf-multicluster-rhel9-operator
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4Fixed in: odf4/odr-rhel9-operator

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2023-30841Moderate

baremetal-operator: plain-text username and hashed password readable by anyone having a cluster-wide read-access

Apr 27, 2023
goGHSA-9wh7-397j-722mmedium

Ironic and ironic-inspector may expose as ConfigMaps

Apr 26, 2023

References

github.com / metal3-io/baremetal-operator/pull/1241
ExploitIssue TrackingPatch
github.com / metal3-io/baremetal-operator/security/advisories/GHSA-9wh7-397j-722m
Vendor Advisory