GHSA-3mq9-xhgq-r7gjMediumCVSS 5.9

EVE: SSH as Root Unlockable Without Triggering Measured Boot

Published
February 4, 2026
Last Modified
February 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

On boot, the Pillar container checks for /config/authorized_keys. If present with a valid public key, it enables SSH on port 22 with root login. The /config partition is not protected by measured boot, is mutable and unencrypted.

This enables an attacker with physical access to the device to take out the disk, modify the /config partition using a separate server, then insert it, without the inserted key being flagged as an integrity voilation my measured boot and remote attestation.

Patches

Patched in 9.4.3-lts

Workarounds

None (apart from preventing physical access to the device)

🎯 Affected products1

  • go/github.com/lf-edge/eve:< 0.0.0-20220708121648-5fef4d92e758

🔗 References (7)