API key disclosure via authorization-failure logging
Published Oct 25, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025
Sensitive-data logging in Dependency-Track before 4.6.0 allows local users with audit-log access to obtain valid API keys. AuthorizationFilter writes the complete X-Api-Key value when a valid key lacks permission for the requested API endpoint. Exploitation requires such a denied request and audit-log access; the exposed key retains the permissions originally assigned to it.
Summary
What happened
Sensitive-data logging in Dependency-Track before 4.6.0 allows local users with audit-log access to obtain valid API keys. AuthorizationFilter writes the complete X-Api-Key value when a valid key lacks permission for the requested API endpoint. Exploitation requires such a denied request and audit-log access; the exposed key retains the permissions originally assigned to it.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-39351
- Published
- Oct 25, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 23, 2025
- Vendor
- OWASP ModSecurity
- Product
- Dependency-Track
- Classifications
- CWE-312, CWE-532, T1552.001
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
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- Oct 25, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 23, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 4.6.0
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