CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-41808

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Published: Jan 18, 2022 | Modified: Jan 26, 2022
CVSS 3.x
2.3
LOW
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
1.9 LOW
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

In M-Files Server product with versions before 21.11.10775.0, enabling logging of Federated authentication to event log wrote sensitive information to log. Mitigating factors are logging is disabled by default.

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
M-files_server M-files * 21.11.10775.0 (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