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FKIE_CVE-2023-50436

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-02-29 01:42 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:39

Severity

5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Summary

An issue was discovered in Couchbase Server before 7.2.4. ns_server admin credentials are leaked in encoded form in the diag.log file. The earliest affected version is 7.1.5.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/release-notes/relnotes.html	Release Notes
cve@mitre.org	https://forums.couchbase.com/tags/security	Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.org	https://www.couchbase.com/alerts/	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/release-notes/relnotes.html	Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://forums.couchbase.com/tags/security	Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.couchbase.com/alerts/	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	couchbase	couchbase_server	*

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T06:39:37.383",
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CVE-2023-50436 (GCVE-0-2023-50436)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-28 00:00 – Updated: 2024-11-14 20:00

Summary

An issue was discovered in Couchbase Server before 7.2.4. ns_server admin credentials are leaked in encoded form in the diag.log file. The earliest affected version is 7.1.5.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-02-29 20:50 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-522 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2340 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://forums.couchbase.com/tags/security
https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/release…
https://www.couchbase.com/alerts/

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Sightings

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