CVE-2017-0925 - Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Severity

40%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

48%

Gitlab Enterprise Edition version 10.1.0 is vulnerable to an insufficiently protected credential issue in the project service integration API endpoint resulting in an information disclosure of plaintext password.

Gitlab Enterprise Edition version 10.1.0 is vulnerable to an insufficiently protected credential issue in the project service integration API endpoint resulting in an information disclosure of plaintext password.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Demo Examples

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

CWE-319

The following code attempts to establish a connection to a site to communicate sensitive information.


               
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hu.disconnect();
//...

Though a connection is successfully made, the connection is unencrypted and it is possible that all sensitive data sent to or received from the server will be read by unintended actors.

Overview

First reported 6 years ago

2018-03-21 20:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-09 23:21:00

Affected Software

Debian Linux 9.0

9.0

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