CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-5720

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in an Environment Variable

Published: Nov 15, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.7 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Ubuntu

A flaw was found in Quarkus, where it does not properly sanitize artifacts created using the Gradle plugin, allowing certain build system information to remain. This flaw allows an attacker to access potentially sensitive information from the build system within the application.

Weakness

The product uses an environment variable to store unencrypted sensitive information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Quarkus Quarkus 3.0.1 (including) 3.2.8 (excluding)
Quarkus Quarkus 3.0.0-candidate_release1 (including) 3.0.0-candidate_release1 (including)
Quarkus Quarkus 3.0.0-candidate_release2 (including) 3.0.0-candidate_release2 (including)

Potential Mitigations

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