VYPR

CWE-532

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

BaseIncompleteLikelihood: Medium

Description

The product writes sensitive information to a log file.

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Related attack patterns (CAPEC)

CAPEC-215

CVEs mapped to this weakness (243)

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CVESevRiskCVSSEPSSKEVPublishedDescription
CVE-2013-63840.000.00Nov 23, 2013(1) impl_db2.py and (2) impl_mongodb.py in OpenStack Ceilometer 2013.2 and earlier, when the logging level is set to INFO, logs the connection string from ceilometer.conf, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information (the DB2 or MongoDB password) by reading the log file.
CVE-2011-19430.000.00Jun 14, 2011The destroy_one_secret function in nm-setting-vpn.c in libnm-util in the NetworkManager package 0.8.999-3.git20110526 in Fedora 15 creates a log entry containing a certificate password, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a log file.
CVE-2001-15560.000.02Dec 31, 2001The log files in Apache web server contain information directly supplied by clients and does not filter or quote control characters, which could allow remote attackers to hide HTTP requests and spoof source IP addresses when logs are viewed with UNIX programs such as cat, tail, and grep.