# CVE-2024-29954: password management API prints sensitive information in log files

> An authenticated user can view sensitive server passwords for protocols like scp and sftp in log files due to improper logging of failed firmware download commands.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.9 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 25 Jun 2024
- **Updated:** 22 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4j3p-3m7m-jgp4

## What is CVE-2024-29954?

CVE-2024-29954 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Broadcom Fabric Operating System, published on 25 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

A vulnerability in a password management API in Brocade Fabric OS versions before v9.2.1, v9.2.0b, v9.1.1d, and v8.2.3e prints sensitive information in log files. This could allow an authenticated user to view the server passwords for protocols such as scp and sftp.

Detail.
When the firmwaredownload command is incorrectly entered or points to an erroneous file, the firmware download log captures the failed command, including any password entered in the command line.

Weakness: CWE-532 (Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File), CWE-312 (Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-29954?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Broadcom Fabric Operating System.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-29954?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-29954 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-29954 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-29954 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Broadcom Fabric Operating System

- [CVE-2025-1976](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1976/): Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS Code Injection (high 8.6, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2021-22555](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-22555/): Linux Kernel Heap Out-of-Bounds Write (high 8.3, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-33186](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-33186/): Command injection in Brocade Fabric OS (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-27797](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-27797/): Hardcoded credentials in Brocade Fabric OS (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2020-15371](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-15371/): Code injection in Brocade Fabric OS (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-29954 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-29954 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Broadcom Fabric Operating System, published on 25 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-29954 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Broadcom Fabric Operating System. 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-2024-29954/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-29954/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29954
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29954
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-29954

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-29954/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.