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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2022-1706

A vulnerability was found in Ignition where ignition configs are accessible from unprivileged containers in VMs running on VMware products. This issue is only relevant in user environments where the Ignition config contains secrets. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. Possible workaround is to not put secrets in the Ignition config.

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CVE-2022-1706
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4 Nov 2026, 18:17 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2022-1706

core-osv · Original source

Published 17 May 2022, 00:00 UTC

A vulnerability was found in Ignition where ignition configs are accessible from unprivileged containers in VMs running on VMware products. This issue is only relevant in user environments where the Ignition config contains secrets. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. Possible workaround is to not put secrets in the Ignition config.

osv:CVE-2022-1706
Complete source record
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        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LY7LKGMQMXV6DGD263YQHNSLOJJ5VLV5/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NP765L7TJI7CD4XVOHUWZVRYRH3FYBOR/",
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