Quarkus CXF Logging Exposes Secrets
CVE-2024-9621 Published on October 8, 2024

Io.quarkiverse.cxf:quarkus-cxf: quarkus cxf may log user password and secret to application log
A vulnerability was found in Quarkus CXF. Passwords and other secrets may appear in the application log in spite of the user configuring them to be hidden. This issue requires some special configuration to be vulnerable, such as SOAP logging enabled, application set client, and endpoint logging properties, and the attacker must have access to the application log.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2024-9621 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a high impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity and availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
HIGH
Privileges Required:
LOW
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
NONE
Availability Impact:
NONE

Timeline

Reported to Red Hat.

Made public.

Weakness Type

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Information written to log files can be of a sensitive nature and give valuable guidance to an attacker or expose sensitive user information.


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Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.06%
Percentile
17.83%

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