# CVE-2019-14886: Information disclosure in Business-central

> Attackers can recover user passwords from Base64-encoded security contexts, exposing credentials in Red Hat Business Central.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.6 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 5 Mar 2020
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5prq-gjqm-96r8

## What is CVE-2019-14886?

CVE-2019-14886 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Business-central, published on 5 Mar 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

A vulnerability was found in business-central, as shipped in rhdm-7.5.1 and rhpam-7.5.1, where encoded passwords are stored in errai_security_context. The encoding used for storing the passwords is Base64, not an encryption algorithm, and any recovery of these passwords could lead to user passwords being exposed.

Weakness: CWE-312 (Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-14886?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Redhat Decision Manager, Redhat Process Automation Manager.

## How do I fix CVE-2019-14886?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-14886 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2019-14886 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14886 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Red Hat Business-central

- [CVE-2019-14841](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14841/): Privilege escalation in Business-central (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2022-1415](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1415/): Drools: unsafe data deserialization in streamutils (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2019-14840](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14840/): Information disclosure in Business-central (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2020-1748](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-1748/): Incorrect Authorization in WildFly Elytron (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2017-7545](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-7545/): XML External Entity Reference in jbpmmigration (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-14886 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2019-14886 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Business-central, published on 5 Mar 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14886 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Red Hat Business-central. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14886/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14886/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14886
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14886
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-14886

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14886/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.