assisted-migration-agent Hardcodes Insecure TLS to vCenter, Exposing Admin Credentials to MITM (CVE-2026-53475)

critical-cve-against-infra · active

The assisted-migration-agent uses hardcoded insecure TLS settings when connecting to VMware vCenter, allowing a man-in-the-middle attacker to intercept and harvest vCenter administrator credentials. This can lead to unauthorized access to vCenter.

Affected packages

• goassisted-migration-agentsee advisory

Sources

• ghsahttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8g5p-jxp9-457c
• nvdhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53475
• ghsahttps://github.com/kubev2v/assisted-migration-agent/pull/268
• nvdhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53475
• nvdhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2487232