CVE-2023-29471

MEDIUM

Lightbend Alpakka Kafka < 5.0.0 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Debug Logs

Title source: llm

Description

Lightbend Alpakka Kafka before 5.0.0 logs its configuration as debug information, and thus log files may contain credentials (if plain cleartext login is configured). This occurs in akka.kafka.internal.KafkaConsumerActor.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Vendor Advisory

https://akka.io/security/alpakka-kafka-cve-2023-29471.html

Issue Tracking

https://github.com/akka/alpakka-kafka/issues/1592

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0015

EPSS Percentile 4.7%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-312

Status published

Products (5)

com.typesafe.akka/akka-stream-kafka_2.11 0Maven

com.typesafe.akka/akka-stream-kafka_2.12 0 - 4.0.2Maven

com.typesafe.akka/akka-stream-kafka_2.13 0 - 4.0.2Maven

com.typesafe.akka/akka-stream-kafka_3 0 - 4.0.2Maven

lightbend/alpakka_kafka < 4.0.2

Published Apr 27, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026