What is CVE-2023-29471?

CVE-2023-29471 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Lightbend Alpakka Kafka, classified under Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-04-27.

How severe is CVE-2023-29471?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Lightbend Alpakka Kafka

CVE-2023-29471

Lightbend Alpakka Kafka before 5.0.0 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.

EPSS: 0.002 (4.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Lightbend Alpakka_kafka
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-312 — Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

References

cve@mitre.org (Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-29471?: CVE-2023-29471 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Lightbend Alpakka Kafka, classified under Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-04-27.
How severe is CVE-2023-29471?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.