Log Injection

published 2023-11-07 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-58269

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 35%
public exploits: 0; none known

YugabyteDB is vulnerable to cross site scripting (XSS) via log injection. Writing invalidated user input to log files can allow an unprivileged attacker to forge log entries or inject malicious content into the logs.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

YugabyteDB YugabyteDB 2.14.14.0, 2.16.8.0, 2.18.4.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-09-04)

Exploit prediction

0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD	3.1	6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

YugabyteDB YugabyteDB

Classification

Weakness

CWE-117 Improper Output Neutralization for Logs
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

yugabyte.com /
product

Sources

CVE List CVE-2023-6002
NVD CVE-2023-6002

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Summary