CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-8944

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Published: Feb 20, 2019 | Modified: Jul 27, 2022
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

An Information Exposure issue in the Terraform deployment step in Octopus Deploy before 2019.1.8 (and before 2018.10.4 LTS) allows remote authenticated users to view sensitive Terraform output variables via log files.

Weakness

Information written to log files can be of a sensitive nature and give valuable guidance to an attacker or expose sensitive user information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Octopus_deploy Octopus * 2018.9.17 (including)
Octopus_deploy Octopus 2018.10.0 (including) 2018.10.0 (including)
Octopus_deploy Octopus 2018.10.1 (including) 2018.10.1 (including)
Octopus_deploy Octopus 2018.10.2 (including) 2018.10.2 (including)
Octopus_deploy Octopus 2018.10.3 (including) 2018.10.3 (including)
Octopus_server Octopus 2018.11.0 (including) 2019.1.8 (excluding)

Extended Description

While logging all information may be helpful during development stages, it is important that logging levels be set appropriately before a product ships so that sensitive user data and system information are not accidentally exposed to potential attackers. Different log files may be produced and stored for:

Potential Mitigations

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