CVE-2022-0555 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Subiquity Shows Guided Storage Passphrase in Plaintext with Read-all Permissions

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00086.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Canonical Ltd.

subiquity

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 22.02.1

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:canonical:subiquity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Canonical Subscribe	Subiquity Subscribe

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugs.launchpad.net/subiquity/+bug/1960162
https://github.com/canonical/subiquity/pull/1181
https://github.com/canonical/subiquity/pull/1182
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0555

History

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Canonical Canonical subiquity
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:canonical:subiquity::::::::
Vendors & Products		Canonical Canonical subiquity

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00114}`	epss `{'score': 0.00071}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published: 2024-06-03T18:17:35.956Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T23:32:46.539Z

Reserved: 2022-02-10T02:44:55.484Z

Link: CVE-2022-0555

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T23:32:46.539Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-06-03T19:15:09.063

Modified: 2025-08-26T17:20:47.927

Link: CVE-2022-0555

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-256

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