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🛡️ CVE-2022-44020 — fedora

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-281 NVD
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CVSS Score
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Description

OpenStack Sushy-Tools and VirtualBMC Improper Preservation of Permissions

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Sushy-Tools through 0.21.0 and VirtualBMC through 2.2.2. Changing the boot device configuration with these packages removes password protection from the managed libvirt XML domain. NOTE: this only affects an "unsupported, production-like configuration."

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-44020 is classified as CWE-281: Improper Preservation of Permissions. Permissions are not carried over correctly during an operation such as copy or restore, widening access.

Affected software

CVE-2022-44020 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • fedora
  • sushy-tools (fixed in 0.21.1)
  • virtualbmc (fixed in 3.0.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 30 October 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
review.opendev.org
review.opendev.org
storyboard.openstack.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
review.opendev.org
review.opendev.org
storyboard.openstack.org

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fedora has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-281: Improper Preservation of Permissions) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-281
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-10-30
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
fedora
sushy-tools 0.21.1
virtualbmc 3.0.0

References

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