CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-23046

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Published: Sep 14, 2021 | Modified: Sep 24, 2021
CVSS 3.x
4.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
3.5 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

On all versions of Guided Configuration before 8.0.0, when a configuration that contains secure properties is created and deployed from Access Guided Configuration (AGC), secure properties are logged in restnoded logs. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

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
Big-ip_access_policy_manager F5 13.1.0 (including) 13.1.4 (including)
Big-ip_access_policy_manager F5 14.1.0 (including) 14.1.4 (including)
Big-ip_access_policy_manager F5 15.1.0 (including) 15.1.3 (including)
Big-ip_access_policy_manager F5 16.0.0 (including) 16.1.0 (excluding)
Big-ip_guided_configuration F5 * 8.0.0 (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

References