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logstash -- password disclosure vulnerability

Affected packages
2.1.0 <= logstash < 2.3.2

Details

VuXML ID f2d4f879-0d7c-11e6-925f-6805ca0b3d42
Discovery 2016-04-01
Entry 2016-04-28

Logstash developers report:

Passwords Printed in Log Files under Some Conditions

It was discovered that, in Logstash 2.1.0+, log messages generated by a stalled pipeline during shutdown will print plaintext contents of password fields. While investigating this issue we also discovered that debug logging has included this data for quite some time. Our latest releases fix both leaks. You will want to scrub old log files if this is of particular concern to you. This was fixed in issue #4965

References

URL https://github.com/elastic/logstash/pull/4965
URL https://www.elastic.co/blog/logstash-2.3.1-and-2.2.4-released#Passwords_Printed_in_Log_Files_under_Some_Conditions_18