Moderate: fwupd security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-3287  

Synopsis

Moderate: fwupd security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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Topic

An update for fwupd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The fwupd packages provide a service that allows session software to update device firmware.

Security Fix(es):

  • fwupd: world readable password in /etc/fwupd/redfish.conf (CVE-2022-3287)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Fixes

  • BZ - 2129904 - CVE-2022-3287 fwupd: world readable password in /etc/fwupd/redfish.conf