Midpoint (European Commission - DIGIT) · Report #519367
Attacker can read password from log data
Validstatus
lowseverity
$169bounty
35upvotes
15 Jun 2019disclosed
How it was found
Summary:
Attacker can read plain text password from log data.
Steps To Reproduce:
- From application dashboard choose Users section, I simultaneously ran process hacker to see the process disk write and read behavior.
- change the password of one of the users, and you see in process hacker window the place for log data creation.
- Open the file in favorite editor in that place: %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Temp\tomcat.1470616378544174392.8080\work\Tomcat\localhost\midpoint
Supporting Material/References:
I have uploaded a video for POC.
Impact
Attacker can read plain text password from log data.