CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-29471

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Published: Apr 27, 2023 | Modified: Jan 31, 2025
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
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Lightbend Alpakka Kafka before 5.0.0 logs its configuration as debug information, and thus log files may contain credentials (if plain cleartext login is configured). This occurs in akka.kafka.internal.KafkaConsumerActor.

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
Alpakka_kafka Lightbend * 4.0.2 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References