CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-28917

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Published: Nov 18, 2020 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/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 issue was discovered in the view_statistics (aka View frontend statistics) extension before 2.0.1 for TYPO3. It saves all GET and POST data of TYPO3 frontend requests to the database. Depending on the extensions used on a TYPO3 website, sensitive data (e.g., cleartext passwords if ext:felogin is installed) may be saved.

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
View_frontend_statistics View_frontend_statistics_project * 2.0.1 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References