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CVE-2024-6833
Zowe CLI Auto-Init Leaks Credentials Locally
Medium5.9EPSS 0.14%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Zowe
Description
A vulnerability in Zowe CLI allows local, privileged actors to store previously entered secure credentials in a plaintext file as part of an auto-init operation.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZoweCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C/CR:M/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:L/MAC:L/MPR:L/MUI:R/MS:C/MC:H/MI:N/MA:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.14% · top 97% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Weakness
- CWE-257: Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format
- CWE-313: Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk
Affected products
- affected 7.18.0 – < 7.23.5
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npm@zowe/cliGHSA-ghgq-x6wc-6jr5 (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Solution: This issue is fixed in Zowe CLI 7.23.5 or later, included as part of Zowe 2.16.0 or later.
Exploitation: There are no known exploits of this issue.
References (1)
- https://github.com/zowe/zowe-cli/ (opens in a new tab)productx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-ghgq-x6wc-6jr5 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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