PT-2019-17701 · Seneca · Seneca

Published 2019-09-09 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2019-5483

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Seneca versions prior to 3.9.0

Description The issue could lead to exposing environment variables to unauthorized users. When a process using the package crashes, all environment variables are printed, which may leak sensitive data such as access keys, especially in scenarios where log-monitoring systems store the error output.

Recommendations Upgrade to version 3.9.0 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-209

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-5483

GHSA-2XWV-3CC9-FP7C

Affected Products

Seneca

References · 6

• 🔥 https://hackerone.com/reports/526258 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-5483 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5483 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-2xwv-3cc9-fp7c · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/nodejs/security-wg/blob/master/vuln/npm/501.json · Note
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/1155 · Note