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Improper Output Neutralization for Logs

CVE-2020-4072

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

In generator-jhipster-kotlin version 1.5.0 and 1.6.0 log entries are created for invalid password reset attempts. As the email is provided by a user and the api is public this can be used by an attacker to forge log entries. This is vulnerable to https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/117.html This problem affects only application generated with jwt or session authentication. Applications using oauth are not vulnerable. This issue has been fixed in version 1.7.0.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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CWE-117 - Improper Output Neutralization for Logs

The software does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes output that is written to logs.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published