CVE-2023-45825 Token in custom credentials object can leak through logs in ydb-go-sdk

What is CVE-2023-45825?

CVE-2023-45825 is a medium-severity vulnerability in ydb-platform ydb-go-sdk, published on 19 Oct 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

ydb-go-sdk is a pure Go native and database/sql driver for the YDB platform. Since ydb-go-sdk v3.48.6 if you use a custom credentials object (implementation of interface Credentials it may leak into logs. This happens because this object could be serialized into an error message using `fmt.Errorf("something went wrong (credentials: %q)", credentials)` during connection to the YDB server. If such logging occurred, a malicious user with access to logs could read sensitive information (i.e. credentials) information and use it to get access to the database. ydb-go-sdk contains this problem in versions from v3.48.6 to v3.53.2. The fix for this problem has been released in version v3.53.3. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should implement the `fmt.Stringer` interface in your custom credentials type with explicit stringify of object state.

Weakness: CWE-532

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-45825?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/ydb-platform/ydb-go-sdk/v3. It affects 1 product.

Products include Ydb Ydb-Go-Sdk.

How do I fix CVE-2023-45825?

Upgrade github.com/ydb-platform/ydb-go-sdk/v3 to 3.53.3 or later.

Is CVE-2023-45825 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-45825 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-q24m-6h38-5xj8, GO-2023-2137.