CVE-2023-22481CWE-532

Sensitive information exposure in the logs of greader API in FreshRSS

Medium · published March 6, 2023

CVSS v3.1
4.0
EPSS
0%
Percentile
40.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator. When using the greader API, the provided password is logged in clear in `users/_/log_api.txt` in the case where the authentication fails. The issues occurs in `authorizationToUser()` in `greader.php`. If there is an issue with the request or the credentials, `unauthorized()` or `badRequest()` is called. Both these functions are printing the return of `debugInfo()` in the logs. `debugInfo()` will return the content of the request. By default, this will be saved in `users/_/log_api.txt` and if the const `COPY_LOG_TO_SYSLOG` is true, in syslogs as well. Exploiting this issue requires having access to logs produced by FreshRSS. Using the information from the logs, a malicious individual could get users' API keys (would be displayed if the users fills in a bad username) or passwords.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.0 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00474 · 40.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-532 · Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
Published
2023-03-06T17:33Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 MAR 17:33Z
    Sensitive information exposure in the logs of greader API in FreshRSS
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