🛡️ GHSA-6w5f-5wgr-qjg5 — constellation

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Constellation allows Emergency shell access during initramfs boot phase

Impact

An active attacker could let the boot fail on purpose in the initramfs, dropping the serial console into an emergency shell. This gives attackers with access to the serial console full control over the VM.

Patches

The issue has been patched in [v2.6.0](https://github.com/edgelesssys/constellation/releases/tag/v2.6.0).

Workarounds

none

Affected software

GHSA-6w5f-5wgr-qjg5 is recorded against 1 package.

  • github.com/edgelesssys/constellation/v2

Timeline and source

Published on 9 March 2023 and last revised on 20 August 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-03-09
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-08-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/edgelesssys/constellation/v2

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