Credential Exposure Affecting ibm_db package, versions <2.6.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-IBMDB-459762
  • published 20 Sep 2019
  • disclosed 16 Aug 2019
  • credit bimalkjha

Introduced: 16 Aug 2019

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-255 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade ibm_db to version 2.6.0 or higher.

Overview

ibm_db is an asynchronous/synchronous interface for node.js to IBM DB2 and IBM Informix.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Credential Exposure. The debug log exposes passwords in plaintext string.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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