Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting com.hazelcast:hazelcast package, versions [4.0-BETA-1,5.1.6) [5.2-BETA-1,5.3.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-COMHAZELCAST-5591146
  • published 22 May 2023
  • disclosed 22 May 2023
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade com.hazelcast:hazelcast to version 5.1.6, 5.3.0 or higher.

Overview

com.hazelcast:hazelcast is a clustering and highly scalable data distribution platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials via the ConfigXmlGenerator component due to improper password masking in the member configurations. Exploiting this vulnerability allows Hazelcast Management Center users to view members' secrets.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

6.5 medium
  • 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
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NVD

4.3 medium