ghsa-55vq-xpjf-r2xc
Vulnerability from github
Published
2023-04-27 21:30
Modified
2025-09-30 18:53
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
Lightbend Alpakka Kafka logs credentials on debug level
Details

Lightbend Alpakka Kafka before 4.0.2 logs its configuration as debug information, and thus log files may contain credentials (if plain cleartext login is configured). This occurs in akka.kafka.internal.KafkaConsumerActor.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Maven",
        "name": "com.typesafe.akka:akka-stream-kafka_3"
      },
      "ranges": [
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          "events": [
            {
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            },
            {
              "fixed": "4.0.2"
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        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
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        "last_known_affected_version_range": "\u003c 4.0.2"
      },
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        "name": "com.typesafe.akka:akka-stream-kafka_2.11"
      },
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            }
          ],
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        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2023-29471"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-312",
      "CWE-532"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2023-04-27T23:53:28Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2023-04-27T21:15:10Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "Lightbend Alpakka Kafka before 4.0.2 logs its configuration as debug information, and thus log files may contain credentials (if plain cleartext login is configured). This occurs in akka.kafka.internal.KafkaConsumerActor.",
  "id": "GHSA-55vq-xpjf-r2xc",
  "modified": "2025-09-30T18:53:16Z",
  "published": "2023-04-27T21:30:26Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29471"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/akka/alpakka-kafka/issues/1592"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/akka/alpakka-kafka/pull/1614/commits/4011b704e93b22f6fd956aac516c7159d384644c"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://akka.io/security/alpakka-kafka-cve-2023-29471.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/akka/alpakka-kafka"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Lightbend Alpakka Kafka logs credentials on debug level"
}


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