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Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

CVE-2023-29471

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

Lightbend Alpakka Kafka prior to 4.0.1, 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''.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-312 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

The application stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published