CVE-2024-5764

Oct. 25, 2024, 12:56 p.m.

Product(s) Impacted

Sonatype Nexus Repository

  • 3.0.0 - 3.72.0

Description

Use of Hard-coded Credentials vulnerability in Sonatype Nexus Repository has been discovered in the code responsible for encrypting any secrets stored in the Nexus Repository configuration database (SMTP or HTTP proxy credentials, user tokens, tokens, among others). The affected versions relied on a static hard-coded encryption passphrase. While it was possible for an administrator to define an alternate encryption passphrase, it could only be done at first boot and not updated. This issue affects Nexus Repository: from 3.0.0 through 3.72.0.

Weaknesses

CWE-798
Use of Hard-coded Credentials

The product contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key, which it uses for its own inbound authentication, outbound communication to external components, or encryption of internal data.

CWE ID: 798

Date

Published: Oct. 23, 2024, 3:15 p.m.

Last Modified: Oct. 25, 2024, 12:56 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

103e4ec9-0a87-450b-af77-479448ddef11

References