🛡️ CVE-2020-25640 — wildfly

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-209 OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Wildfly logs plaintext passwords

A flaw was discovered in WildFly before 21.0.0.Final where, Resource adapter logs plain text JMS password at warning level on connection error, inserting sensitive information in the log file.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level 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-2020-25640 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-2020-25640 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.wildfly:wildfly-parent (fixed in 21.0.0.Final)
  • wildfly

Timeline and source

Published on 15 February 2022 and last revised on 22 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)
security.netapp.com (Web)

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-209
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-02-15
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-02-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.wildfly:wildfly-parent — 21.0.0.Final
wildfly — —

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