What is CVE-2023-45825?

CVE-2023-45825 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ydb Ydb-Go-Sdk, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-10-19.

How severe is CVE-2023-45825?

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

Information disclosure in Ydb Ydb-Go-Sdk

CVE-2023-45825

ydb-go-sdk is a pure Go native and database/sql driver for the YDB platform. Since ydb-go-sdk v3.48.6 if you use a custom credentials object (implementation of interface Credentials it may leak into logs. This happens because this object could be serialized into an error message using `fmt.Errorf("something went wrong (credentials: %q)", credentials)` during connection to the YDB server. If such logging occurred, a malicious user with access to logs could read sensitive information (i.e. credentials) information and use it to get access to the database. ydb-go-sdk contains this problem in versions from v3.48.6 to v3.53.2. The fix for this problem has been released in version v3.53.3. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should implement the `fmt.Stringer` interface in your custom credentials type with explicit stringify of object state.

Published 2023-10-19 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (11.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 11th percentile — 11.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Ydb Ydb-Go-Sdk
Ydb-Platform Ydb-Go-Sdk — versions >= 3.48.6, < 3.53.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb-go-sdk/security/advisories/GHSA-q24m-6h38-5xj8 (Vendor Advisory)
github.com/ydb-platform/ydb-go-sdk/pull/859 (Issue Tracking)
github.com/ydb-platform/ydb-go-sdk/blob/master/credentials/credentials.go (Product)
github.com/ydb-platform/ydb-go-sdk/blob/v3.48.6/internal/balancer/balancer.go (Product)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-45825?: CVE-2023-45825 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ydb Ydb-Go-Sdk, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-10-19.
How severe is CVE-2023-45825?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.