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CWE-532: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Base Incomplete

The product writes sensitive information to a log file.

How to prevent it (4 mitigations)
  1. Architecture and Design, Implementation

    Consider seriously the sensitivity of the information written into log files. Do not write secrets into the log files.

  2. Distribution

    Remove debug log files before deploying the application into production.

  3. Operation

    Protect log files against unauthorized read/write.

  4. Implementation

    Adjust configurations appropriately when software is transitioned from a debug state to production.

Source: MITRE CWE-532

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  • Medium 4.3

    IBM Robotic Process Automation information disclosure

    IBM Robotic Process Automation 21.0.0 through 21.0.7.1 and 23.0.0 through 23.0.1 server could allow an authenticated user to view sensitive information from installation logs. IBM X-Force Id: 262293.

  • Medium 4.3

    IBM Robotic Process Automation information disclosure

    IBM Robotic Process Automation 21.0.0 through 21.0.7 server could allow an authenticated user to view sensitive information from application logs. IBM X-Force ID: 262289.

  • Medium 4.3

    Jenkins Folders Plugin information disclosure vulnerability

    Jenkins Folders Plugin 6.846.v23698686f0f6 and earlier displays an error message that includes an absolute path of a log file when attempting to access the Scan Organization Folder Log if no logs are available, exposing information about the Jenkins controlle…

  • Medium 6.3

    Dell PowerScale OneFS 9.5.0.x, contains an insertion of sensitive information into log file vulnerability in SNMPv3. A …

  • Medium 4.5

    Audit logging fails to sanitize post metadata

    Mattermost fails to sanitize post metadata during audit logging resulting in permalinks contents being logged

  • Medium 4.4

    F5OS-A vulnerability

    Audit logs on F5OS-A may contain undisclosed sensitive information.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

  • Medium 4.9

    Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File in GitLab

    An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 14.3 before 16.0.8, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.3, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.2. Access tokens may have been logged when a query was made to a spec…

  • Medium 6.8

    scp, sftp, ftp servers passwords in supportsave

    The Brocade Fabric OS Commands “configupload” and “configdownload” before Brocade Fabric OS v9.1.1c, v8.2.3d, v9.2.0 print scp, sftp, ftp servers passwords in supportsave. This could allow a remote authenticated attacker to access sensitive information.

  • Medium 5.8

    Dell ECS Streamer, versions prior to 2.0.7.1, contain an insertion of sensitive information in log files vulnerability.…

  • Medium 6.5

    VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs and Isolation Segment information disclosure vulnerability

    The VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs and Isolation Segment contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to the logging of credentials in hex encoding in platform system audit logs. A malicious non-admin user who has access to the platform syste…

  • Medium 6.5

    IBM Planning Analytics Cartridge for Cloud Pak for Data information disclosure

    Planning Analytics Cartridge for Cloud Pak for Data 4.0 exposes sensitive information in logs which could lead an attacker to exploit this vulnerability to conduct further attacks. IBM X-Force ID: 247896.

  • Medium 4.9

    A vulnerability in the logging component of Cisco Duo Authentication Proxy could allow an authenticated, remote attacke…

  • Medium 4.3

    In JetBrains TeamCity before 2023.05.1 build parameters of the "password" type could be written to the agent log

  • Medium 4.3

    In JetBrains TeamCity before 2023.05.1 build chain parameters of the "password" type could be written to the agent log

  • Medium 6.5

    CF workflows leak credentials in system audit logs

    Vulnerability in Cloud Foundry Notifications, Cloud Foundry SMB-volume release, Cloud FOundry cf-nfs-volume release.This issue affects Notifications: All versions prior to 63; SMB-volume release: All versions prior to 3.1.19; cf-nfs-volume release: 5.0.X vers…

  • Medium 6.5

    Kubernetes secrets-store-csi-driver discloses service account tokens in logs

    Kubernetes secrets-store-csi-driver in versions before 1.3.3 discloses service account tokens in logs.

  • Medium 4.3

    In JetBrains TeamCity before 2023.05 parameters of the "password" type from build dependencies could be logged in some …

  • Medium 4.4
    CVE-2023-21492 Exploited

    Kernel pointers are printed in the log file prior to SMR May-2023 Release 1 allows a privileged local attacker to bypas…

    KEV May 19, 2023
  • Medium 4.4

    @mittwald/kubernetes's secret contents leaked via debug logging

    ### Impact When debug logging is enabled (via `DEBUG` environment variable), the Kubernetes client may log all response bodies into the debug log -- including sensitive data from `Secret` resources. When running in a Kubernetes cluster, this might expose sens…

  • Medium 4.4

    Automation user secret logged to Apache access log

    Transmission of credentials within query parameters in Checkmk <= 2.1.0p26, <= 2.0.0p35, and <= 2.2.0b6 (beta) may cause the automation user's secret to be written to the site Apache access log.

  • Medium 5.5

    Lightbend Alpakka Kafka logs credentials on debug level

    Lightbend Alpakka Kafka before 5.0.0 logs its configuration as debug information, and thus log files may contain credentials (if plain cleartext login is configured). This occurs in akka.kafka.internal.KafkaConsumerActor.

  • Medium 5.5

    sensitive data exposure in cloud-init logs

    Sensitive data could be exposed in logs of cloud-init before version 23.1.2. An attacker could use this information to find hashed passwords and possibly escalate their privilege.

  • Medium 5.5

    sensitive data exposure in cloud-init logs

    Sensitive data could be exposed in world readable logs of cloud-init before version 22.3 when schema failures are reported. This leak could include hashed passwords.

  • Medium 5.5

    sensitive data exposure in cloud-init logs

    When instructing cloud-init to set a random password for a new user account, versions before 21.2 would write that password to the world-readable log file /var/log/cloud-init-output.log. This could allow a local user to log in as another user.

  • Medium 5.5

    AWS SDK for Rust will log AWS credentials when TRACE-level logging is enabled for request sending

    aws-sigv4 is a rust library for low level request signing in the aws cloud platform. The `aws_sigv4::SigningParams` struct had a derived `Debug` implementation. When debug-formatted, it would include a user's AWS access key, AWS secret key, and security token…

  • Medium 4.9

    The Logback component in Terminalfour before 8.3.14.1 allows OS administrators to obtain sensitive information from app…

  • Medium 5.5

    An issue was discovered in Acuant AsureID Sentinel before 5.2.149. It uses the root of the C: drive for the i-Dentify a…

  • Medium 5.5

    NGINX Agent vulnerability CVE-2023-1550

    Insertion of Sensitive Information into log file vulnerability in NGINX Agent. NGINX Agent version 2.0 before 2.23.3 inserts sensitive information into a log file. An authenticated attacker with local access to read agent log files may gain access to private …

  • Medium 6.5

    Veracode Scan Jenkins Plugin vulnerable to information disclosure

    Veracode Scan Jenkins Plugin before 23.3.19.0, when the "Connect using proxy" option is enabled and configured with proxy credentials and when the Jenkins global system setting debug is enabled and when a scan is configured for remote agent jobs, allows users…

  • Medium 4.2

    Sensitive information disclosure possible on misconfigured failed backups of non-H2 databases in gocd

    GoCD is an open source continuous delivery server. In GoCD versions from 20.5.0 and below 23.1.0, if the server environment is not correctly configured by administrators to provide access to the relevant PostgreSQL or MySQL backup tools, the credentials for d…

  • Medium 5.5

    OpenShift Assisted Installer leaks image pull secrets as plaintext in installation logs

    A vulnerability was found in OpenShift Assisted Installer. During generation of the Discovery ISO, image pull secrets were leaked as plaintext in the installation logs. An authenticated user could exploit this by re-using the image pull secret to pull contain…

  • Medium 4.2

    directus vulnerable to Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

    Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to version 9.23.3, the `directus_refresh_token` is not redacted properly from the log outputs and can be used to impersonate users without their permission. This issue is p…

  • Medium 5.5

    Spring Vault vulnerable to insertion of sensitive information into a log file

    In Spring Vault, versions 3.0.x prior to 3.0.2 and versions 2.3.x prior to 2.3.3 and older versions, an application is vulnerable to insertion of sensitive information into a log file when it attempts to revoke a Vault batch token.

  • Medium 4.0

    Sensitive information exposure in the logs of greader API in FreshRSS

    FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator. When using the greader API, the provided password is logged in clear in `users/_/log_api.txt` in the case where the authentication fails. The issues occurs in `authorizationToUser()` in `greader.php`. If there is…

  • Medium 6.2

    IBM Maximo Application Suite 8.8.0 and 8.9.0 stores potentially sensitive information that could be read by a local use…

  • Medium 6.8

    Plaintext Password Present in the Web logs

    Potential Insertion of Sensitive Information into Jetty Log Files in multiple versions of OpenNMS Meridian and Horizon could allow disclosure of usernames and passwords if the logging level is set to debug. Users should upgrade to Meridian 2023.1.0 or newer, …

  • Medium 6.5

    IBM Spectrum Virtualize information disclosure

    IBM Spectrum Virtualize 8.3, 8.4, and 8.5 could disclose SNMPv3 server credentials to an authenticated user in log files. IBM X-Force ID: 239540.

  • Medium 4.1

    An insertion of sensitive information into log file vulnerability [CWE-532] in the FortiPortal management interface 7.0…

  • Medium 6.3

    Argo CD leaks repository credentials in user-facing error messages and in logs

    Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. All versions of Argo CD starting with v2.6.0-rc1 have an output sanitization bug which leaks repository access credentials in error messages. These error messages are visible to the use…

  • Medium 6.5

    Credential disclosure in syft when SYFT_ATTEST_PASSWORD environment variable set in syft

    syft is a a CLI tool and Go library for generating a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) from container images and filesystems. A password disclosure flaw was found in Syft versions v0.69.0 and v0.69.1. This flaw leaks the password stored in the SYFT_ATTEST_PAS…