CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-10362

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Published: Jun 16, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Prior to Logstash version 5.0.1, Elasticsearch Output plugin when updating connections after sniffing, would log to file HTTP basic auth credentials.

Weakness

The product writes sensitive information to a log file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Output_plugin Elasticsearch * 5.0.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References