CVE-2023-22481
Sensitive information exposure in the logs of greader API in FreshRSS
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.0 Medium
- Published
- Mar 6, 2023
- Updated
- Feb 25, 2025
- Reserved
- Dec 29, 2022
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 4.0 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
FreshRSSFreshRSS |
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References
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