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CVE-2023-22481

FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator. When using the greader API, the provided password is logged in clear in `

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4 EPSS 0.00048
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Weakness Classification

Affected Products & Versions

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freshrss>= 1.9.0 and < 1.21.0

Public Exploits & PoCs

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Scoring & Timeline

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MEDIUM · CVSS v3.1 · security-advisories@github.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD06 Mar 2023 · 06:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC triage · cisa-vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
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