# CVE-2021-3417: Information disclosure in XClarity Orchestrator

> Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator logs encoded credentials to FFDC files, potentially exposing sensitive data to privileged users.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.9 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 9 Mar 2021
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-f2gj-pfpv-hh8v

## What is CVE-2021-3417?

CVE-2021-3417 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator, published on 9 Mar 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

An internal product security audit of LXCO, prior to version 1.2.2, discovered that credentials for Lenovo XClarity Administrator (LXCA), if added as a Resource Manager, are encoded then written to an internal LXCO log file each time a session is established with LXCA. Affected logs are captured in the First Failure Data Capture (FFDC) service log. The FFDC service log is only generated when requested by a privileged LXCO user and it is only accessible to the privileged LXCO user that requested the file.

Weakness: CWE-319 (Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-3417?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Lenovo Xclarity Orchestrator.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-3417?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-3417 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-3417 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-3417 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator

- [CVE-2020-8356](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8356/): Information disclosure in XClarity Orchestrator (medium 4.9)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-3417 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-3417 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator, published on 9 Mar 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-3417 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-3417/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-3417/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3417
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3417
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-3417

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-3417/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.