Apache Derby exposes user and password attributes
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 1, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 31, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Dec 31, 2005
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 1, 2022
Reviewed
May 25, 2022
Last updated
Jan 31, 2023
Apache Derby before 10.1.2.1 exposes the (1) user and (2) password attributes in cleartext via (a) the RDBNAM parameter of the ACCSEC command and (b) the output of the DatabaseMetaData.getURL function, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information.
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