What is CVE-2024-38460?

CVE-2024-38460 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Sonarsource Sonarqube, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2024-06-16.

How severe is CVE-2024-38460?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Sonarsource Sonarqube

CVE-2024-38460

In SonarQube before 10.4 and 9.9.4 LTA, encrypted values generated using the Settings Encryption feature are potentially exposed in cleartext as part of the URL parameters in the logs (such as SonarQube Access Logs, Proxy Logs, etc).

Published 2024-06-16 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (23.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 24th percentile — 23.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Sonarsource Sonarqube

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

sonarsource.atlassian.net/browse/SONAR-21559 (Issue Tracking)
community.sonarsource.com/t/sonarqube-ce-10-3-0-leaking-encrypted-values-in-web… (Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-38460?: CVE-2024-38460 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Sonarsource Sonarqube, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2024-06-16.
How severe is CVE-2024-38460?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.