CVE-2020-4072 (GCVE-0-2020-4072)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-06-25 20:05
Modified
2024-08-04 07:52
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-117 - Improper Output Neutralization for Logs
Summary
In generator-jhipster-kotlin version 1.6.0 log entries are created for invalid password reset attempts. As the email is provided by a user and the api is public this can be used by an attacker to forge log entries. This is vulnerable to https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/117.html This problem affects only application generated with jwt or session authentication. Applications using oauth are not vulnerable. This issue has been fixed in version 1.7.0.
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jhipster jhipster-kotlin Version: = 1.6.0
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