What is CVE-2019-8944?

CVE-2019-8944 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Octopus Deploy, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-02-20.

How severe is CVE-2019-8944?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Octopus Deploy

CVE-2019-8944

An Information Exposure issue in the Terraform deployment step in Octopus Deploy before 2019.1.8 (and before 2018.10.4 LTS) allows remote authenticated users to view sensitive Terraform output variables via log files.

Published 2019-02-20 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (74.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 74th percentile — 74.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Octopus Deploy — versions 2018.10.0, 2018.10.1, 2018.10.2
Octopus Server

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/5315 (Third Party Advisory)
github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/5314 (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-8944?: CVE-2019-8944 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Octopus Deploy, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-02-20.
How severe is CVE-2019-8944?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.