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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-3684

A vulnerability was found in OpenShift Assisted Installer. During generation of the Discovery ISO, image pull secrets were leaked as plaintext in the installation logs. An authenticated user could exploit this by re-using the image pull secret to pull container images from the registry as the associated user.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:05 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-3684

core-osv · Original source

Published 24 Mar 2023, 20:15 UTC

A vulnerability was found in OpenShift Assisted Installer. During generation of the Discovery ISO, image pull secrets were leaked as plaintext in the installation logs. An authenticated user could exploit this by re-using the image pull secret to pull container images from the registry as the associated user.

osv:CVE-2021-3684
Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:56:08.770410440Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 387083,
  "published_at": "2023-03-24T20:15:08.16+00:00"
}