What is CVE-2024-3623?

CVE-2024-3623 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Mirror Registry For Openshift, classified under Plaintext Storage of a Password. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-04-25.

How severe is CVE-2024-3623?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Red Hat Mirror Registry For Openshift

CVE-2024-3623

A flaw was found when using mirror-registry to install Quay. It uses a default database secret key, which is stored in plain-text format in one of the configuration template files. This issue may lead to all instances of Quay deployed using mirror-registry to have the same database secret key. This flaw allows a malicious actor to access sensitive information from Quay's database.

EPSS: 0.004 (35.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-256 — Plaintext Storage of a Password

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, issue-tracking, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-3623?: CVE-2024-3623 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Mirror Registry For Openshift, classified under Plaintext Storage of a Password. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-04-25.
How severe is CVE-2024-3623?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.