CVE-2024-23686

DependencyCheck Debug Mode Logging of NVD API Key

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Jan 19, 2024
Updated: Jul 14, 2026
Reserved: Jan 19, 2024

Description

DependencyCheck for Maven 9.0.0 to 9.0.6, for CLI version 9.0.0 to 9.0.5, and for Ant versions 9.0.0 to 9.0.5, when used in debug mode, allows an attacker to recover the NVD API Key from a log file.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Affected Products

Product	Versions
org.owasp:dependency-check-maven	9.0.0 through 9.0.6Affected
org.owasp:dependency-check-cli	9.0.0 through 9.0.5Affected
org.owasp:dependency-check-ant	9.0.0 through 9.0.5Affected

References

https://github.com/jeremylong/DependencyCheck/security/advisories/GHSA-qqhq-8r2c-c3f5vendor-advisory
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qqhq-8r2c-c3f5vendor-advisory
https://vulncheck.com/advisories/vc-advisory-GHSA-qqhq-8r2c-c3f5third-party-advisory

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