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CVE-2023-22481

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CVE-2023-22481

Published: Mar 6, 2023

Modified: Feb 25, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

4.0

MEDIUM

Description

FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator. When using the greader API, the provided password is logged in clear in `users/_/log_api.txt` in the case where the authentication fails. The issues occurs in `authorizationToUser()` in `greader.php`. If there is an issue with the request or the credentials, `unauthorized()` or `badRequest()` is called. Both these functions are printing the return of `debugInfo()` in the logs. `debugInfo()` will return the content of the request. By default, this will be saved in `users/_/log_api.txt` and if the const `COPY_LOG_TO_SYSLOG` is true, in syslogs as well. Exploiting this issue requires having access to logs produced by FreshRSS. Using the information from the logs, a malicious individual could get users' API keys (would be displayed if the users fills in a bad username) or passwords.

VendorProductVersions

FreshRSS

FreshRSS

affected
>= 1.9.0, < 1.21.0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

Adjacent

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

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