{"id":"CVE-2023-22481","aliases":["EUVD-2023-26629","GHSA-8vvv-jxg6-8578"],"status":"published","title":"Sensitive information exposure in the logs of greader API in FreshRSS","description":"FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator. When using the greader API, the provided password is logged in clear in `users/_/log_api.txt` in the case where the authentication fails. The issues occurs in `authorizationToUser()` in `greader.php`. If there is an issue with the request or the credentials, `unauthorized()` or `badRequest()` is called. Both these functions are printing the return of `debugInfo()` in the logs.  `debugInfo()` will return the content of the request. By default, this will be saved in `users/_/log_api.txt` and if the const `COPY_LOG_TO_SYSLOG` is true, in syslogs as well. Exploiting this issue requires having access to logs produced by FreshRSS. Using the information from the logs, a malicious individual could get users' API keys (would be displayed if the users fills in a bad username) or passwords.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.00474,"percentile":0.41479,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-532"],"published":"2023-03-06T17:33:03Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:55Z","products":[{"vendor":"freshrss","product":"freshrss"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/security/advisories/GHSA-8vvv-jxg6-8578","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred","Exploit","Vendor Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/commit/075cf4c800063e3cc65c3d41a9c23222e8ebb554","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/22xxx/CVE-2023-22481.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22481","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2023-22481","title":"Sensitive information exposure in the logs of greader API in FreshRSS","description":"FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator. When using the greader API, the provided password is logged in clear in `users/_/log_api.txt` in the case where the authentication fails. The issues occurs in `authorizationToUser()` in `greader.php`. If there is an issue with the request or the credentials, `unauthorized()` or `badRequest()` is called. Both these functions are printing the return of `debugInfo()` in the logs.  `debugInfo()` will return the content of the request. By default, this will be saved in `users/_/log_api.txt` and if the const `COPY_LOG_TO_SYSLOG` is true, in syslogs as well. Exploiting this issue requires having access to logs produced by FreshRSS. Using the information from the logs, a malicious individual could get users' API keys (would be displayed if the users fills in a bad username) or passwords.","status":"published","published":"2023-03-06T17:33:03.697Z","modified":"2025-02-25T15:01:23.226Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-532"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:35:15.779187Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2023-26629","description":"FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator. When using the greader API, the provided password is logged in clear in `users/_/log_api.txt` in the case where the authentication fails. The issues occurs in `authorizationToUser()` in `greader.php`. If there is an issue with the request or the credentials, `unauthorized()` or `badRequest()` is called. Both these functions are printing the return of `debugInfo()` in the logs.  `debugInfo()` will return the content of the request. By default, this will be saved in `users/_/log_api.txt` and if the const `COPY_LOG_TO_SYSLOG` is true, in syslogs as well. Exploiting this issue requires having access to logs produced by FreshRSS. Using the information from the logs, a malicious individual could get users' API keys (would be displayed if the users fills in a bad username) or passwords.","status":"published","published":"2023-03-06T17:33:03Z","modified":"2025-02-25T15:01:23Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T20:53:24.646946Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2023-22481","description":"FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator. When using the greader API, the provided password is logged in clear in `users/_/log_api.txt` in the case where the authentication fails. The issues occurs in `authorizationToUser()` in `greader.php`. If there is an issue with the request or the credentials, `unauthorized()` or `badRequest()` is called. Both these functions are printing the return of `debugInfo()` in the logs.  `debugInfo()` will return the content of the request. By default, this will be saved in `users/_/log_api.txt` and if the const `COPY_LOG_TO_SYSLOG` is true, in syslogs as well. Exploiting this issue requires having access to logs produced by FreshRSS. Using the information from the logs, a malicious individual could get users' API keys (would be displayed if the users fills in a bad username) or passwords.","status":"published","published":"2023-03-06T18:15:10.357Z","modified":"2026-06-17T05:35:33.207Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-532"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:07:48.342507Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2023-22481","title":"Sensitive information exposure in the logs of greader API in FreshRSS","description":"FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator. When using the greader API, the provided password is logged in clear in `users/_/log_api.txt` in the case where the authentication fails. The issues occurs in `authorizationToUser()` in `greader.php`. If there is an issue with the request or the credentials, `unauthorized()` or `badRequest()` is called. Both these functions are printing the return of `debugInfo()` in the logs.  `debugInfo()` will return the content of the request. By default, this will be saved in `users/_/log_api.txt` and if the const `COPY_LOG_TO_SYSLOG` is true, in syslogs as well. Exploiting this issue requires having access to logs produced by FreshRSS. Using the information from the logs, a malicious individual could get users' API keys (would be displayed if the users fills in a bad username) or passwords.","status":"published","published":"2023-03-06T17:33:03.697Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:55.221401855Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-532"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:30.334753Z"}]}}