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CVE-2021-21270 (GCVE-0-2021-21270)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-22 18:05 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:09
VLAI
Title
Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
Summary
OctopusDSC is a PowerShell module with DSC resources that can be used to install and configure an Octopus Deploy Server and Tentacle agent. In OctopusDSC version 4.0.977 and earlier a customer API key used to connect to Octopus Server is exposed via logging in plaintext. This vulnerability is patched in version 4.0.1002.
Severity
6.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-319 - {"CWE-319":"Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information"}
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
OctopusDeploy OctopusDSC Affected: < 4.0.1002
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