CVE-2023-33187
highlight vulnerable to cleartext transmission of sensitive information
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.4 Medium
- Published
- May 26, 2023
- Updated
- Jan 14, 2025
- Reserved
- May 17, 2023
Description
Highlight is an open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Highlight may record passwords on customer deployments when a password html input is switched to `type="text"` via a javascript "Show Password" button. This differs from the expected behavior which always obfuscates `type="password"` inputs. A customer may assume that switching to `type="text"` would also not record this input; hence, they would not add additional `highlight-mask` css-class obfuscation to this part of the DOM, resulting in unintentional recording of a password value when a `Show Password` button is used. This issue was patched in version 6.0.0. This patch tracks changes to the `type` attribute of an input to ensure an input that used to be a `type="password"` continues to be obfuscated.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.4 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
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References
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