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CVE-2023-40354

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
Publication date:
14/08/2023
Last modified:
22/08/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in MariaDB MaxScale before 23.02.3. A user enters an encrypted password on a "maxctrl create service" command line, but this password is then stored in cleartext in the resulting .cnf file under /var/lib/maxscale/maxscale.cnf.d. The fixed versions are 2.5.28, 6.4.9, 22.08.8, and 23.02.3.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x
6.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:maxscale:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.5.28 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:maxscale:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.0.0 (including) 6.4.9 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:maxscale:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 22.08 (including) 22.08.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:maxscale:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 23.02 (including) 23.02.3 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools