Insufficiently protected credentials in barbican - CVE-2023-1633

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Insufficiently protected credentials in barbican - CVE-2023-1633

Published: November 24, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU83484
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1633
CWE-ID: CWE-522
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to application stores credentials in clear text in configuration files. A local user can read the configuration file and obtain credentials.


Affected software

barbican
Red Hat OpenStack
openstack-barbican (Red Hat package)

How to mitigate CVE-2023-1633

Install updates from vendor's website.

barbican - update to 17.0.0
openstack-barbican (Red Hat package) - update to 9.0.2-2.20230515185056.1cd585c.el8ost

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