mediumCVSS 4.3Vulnerability

GHSA-hfc8-w5f4-3x6m

## Impact The Ironic Standalone Operator (IRSO) is the operator to maintain an Ironic deployment for Metal3. IRSO controller automatically adds its environment label to user-provided Secrets and ConfigMaps without the resource owner's consent. A high-privilege controller modifying user-owned resources constitutes an unauthorized integrity violation. Deployments running IrSO v0.7.0 through v0.8.1 that reference user-provided Secrets or ConfigMaps (TLS certificates, BMC CA, trusted CA) are affected. ## Patches Fixed in v0.9.0, v0.8.2, v0.7.3. ## Workarounds Manually add the environment label (ironic-standalone-operator.metal3.io/environment) to all user-provided Secrets and ConfigMaps before they are referenced in the Ironic resource. This prevents the controller from modifying them. ## Resources - https://github.com/metal3-io/ironic-standalone-operator/pull/619 - https://github.com/metal3-io/ironic-standalone-operator/pull/664 - https://github.com/metal3-io/ironic-standalone-operator/pull/665

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-hfc8-w5f4-3x6m
severity
medium
summary
Ironic Standalone Operator's controller modifies user-owned resources without consent
cvss_score
4.3
cve_id
GHSA-hfc8-w5f4-3x6m
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
is_ghsa_only
true
ghsa_published
2026-05-29T18:23:34Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hfc8-w5f4-3x6m
ghsa_updated
2026-05-29T18:23:36Z

Related Entities (4)

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]go/github.com/metal3-io/ironic-standalone-operator

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Missing Authorization

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]go/github.com/metal3-io/ironic-standalone-operator

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