CVE-2023-40354

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (6.5) in mariadb maxscale. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in MariaDB MaxScale before 23.02.3. A user enters an encrypted password on a "maxctrl create service" command line, but this password is then stored in cleartext in the resulting .cnf file under /var/lib/maxscale/maxscale.cnf.d. The fixed versions are 2.5.28, 6.4.9, 22.08.8, and 23.02.3.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 25% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-312
Published: 2023-08-14
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mariadb:maxscale

References

https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4681
https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-4681

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