What is CVE-2022-0852?

CVE-2022-0852 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Convert2rhel Project, classified under Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-08-29.

How severe is CVE-2022-0852?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Convert2rhel Project

CVE-2022-0852

There is a flaw in convert2rhel. convert2rhel passes the Red Hat account password to subscription-manager via the command line, which could allow unauthorized users locally on the machine to view the password via the process command line via e.g. htop or ps. The specific impact varies upon the privileges of the Red Hat account in question, but it could affect the integrity, availability, and/or data confidentiality of other systems that are administered by that account. This occurs regardless of how the password is supplied to convert2rhel.

EPSS: 0.004 (28.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Convert2rhel_project Convert2rhel
Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
N/a Convert2rhel — versions Fixed in v0.26.

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

secalert@redhat.com (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
secalert@redhat.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
secalert@redhat.com (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
secalert@redhat.com (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
secalert@redhat.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-0852?: CVE-2022-0852 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Convert2rhel Project, classified under Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-08-29.
How severe is CVE-2022-0852?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.