Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Image Library insufficiently protected credentials

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Image Library. This manipulation causes insufficiently protected credentials. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2019-10214. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability has been found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (Operating System) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Image Library. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-522. The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

The containers/image library used by the container tools Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo in Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 8 and CRI-O in OpenShift Container Platform, does not enforce TLS connections to the container registry authorization service. An attacker could use this vulnerability to launch a MiTM attack and steal login credentials or bearer tokens.

The weakness was presented 11/25/2019 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2019-10214 since 03/27/2019. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/21/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1552 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 236549 (Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0013: container-tools:rhel8 (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0013)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (236549). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Operating System

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• Red Hat

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• Enterprise Linux

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• 8

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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