CVE-2023-40354

MEDIUM

MariaDB MaxScale < 2.5.28 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Configuration File

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in MariaDB MaxScale before 23.02.3. A user enters an encrypted password on a "maxctrl create service" command line, but this password is then stored in cleartext in the resulting .cnf file under /var/lib/maxscale/maxscale.cnf.d. The fixed versions are 2.5.28, 6.4.9, 22.08.8, and 23.02.3.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory

https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4681

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0012

EPSS Percentile 30.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/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 (1)

mariadb/maxscale < 2.5.28

Published Aug 14, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026