cve-2023-22481
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-03-06 17:33
Modified
2025-02-25 15:01
Severity ?
4.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
Sensitive information exposure in the logs of greader API in FreshRSS
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/commit/075cf4c800063e3cc65c3d41a9c23222e8ebb554Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/security/advisories/GHSA-8vvv-jxg6-8578Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
FreshRSSFreshRSS
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