GHSA-8g5p-jxp9-457c

Assisted Migration Agent: Hardcoded insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) connections during vCenter communication

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2026-53475

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Go	github.com/kubev2v/assisted-migration-agent	< 0.16.0	0.16.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53475 advisory
https://github.com/kubev2v/assisted-migration-agent/pull/268 web
https://github.com/kubev2v/assisted-migration-agent/commit/b940fec9f5032a0801e994054d30e81d64b2942a web
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53475 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2487232 web
https://github.com/kubev2v/assisted-migration-agent package