Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information Affecting mariadb-corporation/MaxScale package, versions [2.5.26,2.5.28)[6.4.7,6.4.9)[22.08.6,22.08.8)[23.02.1,23.02.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MARIADBCORPORATIONMAXSCALE-5841657
  • published15 Aug 2023
  • disclosed14 Aug 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-40354  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-312  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mariadb-corporation/MaxScale to version 2.5.28, 6.4.9, 22.08.8, 23.02.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

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