CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-17495

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Published: Aug 11, 2020 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

django-celery-results through 1.2.1 stores task results in the database. Among the data it stores are the variables passed into the tasks. The variables may contain sensitive cleartext information that does not belong unencrypted in the database.

Weakness

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Django-celery-results Django-celery-results_project * 1.2.1 (including)
Python-django-celery-results Ubuntu bionic *
Python-django-celery-results Ubuntu focal *
Python-django-celery-results Ubuntu groovy *
Python-django-celery-results Ubuntu hirsute *
Python-django-celery-results Ubuntu impish *
Python-django-celery-results Ubuntu kinetic *
Python-django-celery-results Ubuntu lunar *
Python-django-celery-results Ubuntu mantic *
Python-django-celery-results Ubuntu oracular *
Python-django-celery-results Ubuntu trusty *

Potential Mitigations

References