CVE-2020-4072

In generator-jhipster-kotlin version 1.6.0 log entries are created for invalid password reset attempts. As the email is provided by a user and the api is public this can be used by an attacker to forge log entries. This is vulnerable to https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/117.html This problem affects only application generated with jwt or session authentication. Applications using oauth are not vulnerable. This issue has been fixed in version 1.7.0.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.3 Medium

Status

Modified - security-advisories@github.com

Published

2020-06-25

Last modified

2024-08-04

Weaknesses

CWE-117

Affected products

• Generator-jhipster-kotlin (Jhipster)
• Jhipster-kotlin (Jhipster)

References

• https://github.com/jhipster/jhipster-kotlin/commit/426ccab85e7e0da562643200637b99b6a2a99449
• https://github.com/jhipster/jhipster-kotlin/security/advisories/GHSA-pfxf-wh96-fvjc
• https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Log_Injection
• https://www.baeldung.com/jvm-log-forging