Local Plaintext Password Disclosure Affecting kajam package, versions >= 0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-KAJAM-20170
  • published29 Jun 2014
  • disclosed29 Jun 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jun 2014

CVE-2014-4999  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

kajam is a lightweight content management system for middle and small teams. Affected versions of this gem expose the MySQL or PostgreSQL password in the process list, due to a flaw in /dataset/lib/dataset/database/postgresql.rb. This may allow a local attacker to gain access to password information.

CVSS Scores

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