PT-2021-10790 · Etherpad · Etherpad

Published 2021-04-28 · Updated 2021-05-05 · CVE-2020-22783

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Etherpad versions prior to 1.8.3

Description The issue concerns the insecure storage of passwords used by users in the database and log files. This affects every database backend supported by Etherpad.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.8.3, update to version 1.8.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-312

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-22783

Affected Products

Etherpad

References · 4

• 🔥 https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/issues/3421 · Exploit
• https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/commit/53f126082a8b3d094e48b159f0f0bc8a5db4b2f4 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-22783 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-22783 · Security Note