CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-5262

Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information

Published: Mar 19, 2020 | Modified: Mar 23, 2020
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

In EasyBuild before version 4.1.2, the GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) used by EasyBuild for the GitHub integration features (like --new-pr, --fro,-pr, etc.) is shown in plain text in EasyBuild debug log files. This issue is fixed in EasyBuild v4.1.2, and in the master+ develop branches of the easybuild-framework repository.

Weakness

The product stores sensitive information without properly limiting read or write access by unauthorized actors.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Easybuild Easybuild_project * 4.1.2 (excluding)

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