CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-40354

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2023-08-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-08-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-312

Description

An issue was discovered in MariaDB MaxScale before 23.02.3. A user enters an encrypted password on a "maxctrl create service" command line, but this password is then stored in cleartext in the resulting .cnf file under /var/lib/maxscale/maxscale.cnf.d. The fixed versions are 2.5.28, 6.4.9, 22.08.8, and 23.02.3.

Affected configurations

• mariadb maxscale (< 2.5.28) • mariadb maxscale (>= 6.0.0 < 6.4.9) • mariadb maxscale (>= 22.08 < 22.08.8) • mariadb maxscale (>= 23.02 < 23.02.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information weakness

References