Ironic and ironic-inspector deployed within Baremetal Operator using the included deploy.sh store their .htpasswd files as ConfigMaps instead of Secrets. This causes the plain-text username and hashed password to be readable by anyone having a cluster-wide read-access to the management cluster, or access to the management cluster's Etcd storage.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 Via RHSA-2023:1326 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1326
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-30841
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 Via RHSA-2023:6143 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6143