kubev2v/assisted-migration-agent · Security
Assisted Migration Agent: Hardcoded insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) connections during vCenter communication
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-8g5p-jxp9-457c
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-53475
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 9.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Description
A flaw was found in assisted-migration-agent. The application hardcodes insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) connections when communicating with vCenter. This vulnerability allows a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacker to intercept and harvest vCenter administrator credentials. This can lead to unauthorized access to vCenter.
CWEs
- CWE-295 · Improper Certificate Validation
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53475 ↗
- https://github.com/kubev2v/assisted-migration-agent/pull/268 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53475 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2487232 ↗
- https://github.com/kubev2v/assisted-migration-agent/commit/b940fec9f5032a0801e994054d30e81d64b2942a ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8g5p-jxp9-457c ↗