🛡️ CVE-2020-13997 — core

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-209 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Shopware database password is leaked to an unauthenticated users

In Shopware 6 before 6.2.3, the database password is leaked to an unauthenticated user when a DriverException occurs and verbose error handling is enabled. This vulnerability does not affect the shopware 5 release branch (shopware/shopware on packagist).

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2020-13997 is classified as CWE-209: Information Exposure Through an Error Message. Error output includes internal detail such as paths, queries or stack traces that assists an attacker.

Affected software

CVE-2020-13997 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • shopware/core (from 6.0.0 up to 6.2.3)
  • shopware/platform (from 6.0.0 up to 6.2.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 8 July 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
docs.shopware.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
www.shopware.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-209
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-07-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
shopware/core 6.0.0 6.2.3
shopware/platform 6.0.0 6.2.3

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