Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File Affecting aws-cdk-lib package, versions >=2.37.0 <2.187.0
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- published1 Apr 2025
- disclosed31 Mar 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 31 Mar 2025
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-532 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade aws-cdk-lib to version 2.187.0 or higher.
Overview
aws-cdk-lib is a Version 2 of the AWS Cloud Development Kit library
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File via the DescribeCognitoUserPoolClient CDK API. A user with access to the account where logs for this user pool are stored, and read permissions on the associated lambda function logs, can see the secrets generated by other users' cognito.UserPoolClient constructs.
Note: After upgrading, applications must be redeployed with the feature flag @aws-cdk/cognito:logUserPoolClientSecretValue set to false to remediate this vulnerability.
Workaround
This vulnerability can be avoided by setting Logging.withDataHidden().