CVE-2023-29471 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2023-04-27

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:lightbend:alpakka_kafka:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-1201	Lightbend Alpakka Kafka logs credentials on debug level
Github GHSA	GHSA-55vq-xpjf-r2xc	Lightbend Alpakka Kafka logs credentials on debug level

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00064.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://akka.io/security/alpakka-kafka-cve-2023-29471.html
https://github.com/akka/alpakka-kafka/issues/1592

History

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Lightbend Alpakka Kafka

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-04-27T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-01-31T18:39:55.602Z

Reserved: 2023-04-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-29471

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T14:07:46.431Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-27T21:15:10.710

Modified: 2025-01-31T19:15:13.353

Link: CVE-2023-29471

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-312

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