CVE-2022-39309 GoCD server secret encryption/decryption key leaked to agents during material serialization

Medium 4.9 Published Updated

A compromised GoCD agent can leak the server's symmetric encryption key, allowing attackers to decrypt secrets intended for other agents or environments.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
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An administrator
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2022-39309?

CVE-2022-39309 is a medium-severity vulnerability in gocd, published on 14 Oct 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

GoCD is a continuous delivery server. GoCD helps you automate and streamline the build-test-release cycle for continuous delivery of your product. GoCD versions prior to 21.1.0 leak the symmetric key used to encrypt/decrypt any secure variables/secrets in GoCD configuration to authenticated agents. A malicious/compromised agent may then expose that key from memory, and potentially allow an attacker the ability to decrypt secrets intended for other agents/environments if they also are able to obtain access to encrypted configuration values from the GoCD server. This issue is fixed in GoCD version 21.1.0. There are currently no known workarounds.

Weakness: CWE-668, CWE-499, CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-39309?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Thoughtworks Gocd.

How do I fix CVE-2022-39309?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-39309 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2022-39309 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-39309 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-f9qg-xcxq-cgv9.

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