CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-4072
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-06-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-117
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• jhipster generator-jhipster-kotlin (< 1.7.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-117 Improper Output Neutralization for Logs weakness
References
- https://github.com/jhipster/jhipster-kotlin/commit/426ccab85e7e0da562643200637b99b6a2a99449 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/jhipster/jhipster-kotlin/security/advisories/GHSA-pfxf-wh96-fvjc Third Party Advisory
- https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Log_Injection Technical Description
- https://www.baeldung.com/jvm-log-forging Technical Description
- https://github.com/jhipster/jhipster-kotlin/commit/426ccab85e7e0da562643200637b99b6a2a99449 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/jhipster/jhipster-kotlin/security/advisories/GHSA-pfxf-wh96-fvjc Third Party Advisory
- https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Log_Injection Technical Description
- https://www.baeldung.com/jvm-log-forging Technical Description