{"id":"CVE-2020-4072","details":"In generator-jhipster-kotlin version 1.6.0 log entries are created for invalid password reset attempts. As the email is provided by a user and the api is public this can be used by an attacker to forge log entries. This is vulnerable to https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/117.html This problem affects only application generated with jwt or session authentication. Applications using oauth are not vulnerable. This issue has been fixed in version 1.7.0.","aliases":["GHSA-pfxf-wh96-fvjc"],"modified":"2026-07-09T11:24:27.600463Z","published":"2020-06-25T20:15:11.350Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/jhipster/jhipster-kotlin/security/advisories/GHSA-pfxf-wh96-fvjc"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/jhipster/jhipster-kotlin/commit/426ccab85e7e0da562643200637b99b6a2a99449"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Log_Injection"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"https://www.baeldung.com/jvm-log-forging"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"a613a1ea39fd63c5d0c2480c1e462511b979164b"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:jhipster:generator-jhipster-kotlin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.7.0"}],"source":"CPE_RANGE"}}],"versions":["v1.5.0","v1.4.0","v1.3.0","v1.2.2","v1.2.1","v1.2.0","v1.1.1","v1.1.0","v1.0.0","v0.18.1","v0.18.0","v0.17.2","v0.17.1","v0.17.0","v0.16.0","v0.15.0","v0.14.0","v0.13.0","v0.11.0","v0.10.1","v0.10.0","v0.9.3","v0.9.2","v0.9.1","v0.9.0","v0.8.4","v0.8.3","v0.8.2","v0.8.1","v0.8.0","v0.7.1","v0.7.0","v0.6.2","v0.6.1","v0.6.0","v0.5.2","v0.5.1","v0.5.0","v0.4.0","v0.3.1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-4072.json"}},{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/jhipster/jhipster-kotlin","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"426ccab85e7e0da562643200637b99b6a2a99449"}],"database_specific":{"source":"REFERENCES"}}],"versions":["1.6.0","1.5.0","1.4.0","1.3.0","1.2.0","1.1.0","1.0.0","0.8.1","0.8.0","0.7.0","0.6.1","0.6.0","0.5.0","0.4.0","0.3.0","0.2.1","0.2.0","0.1.0","0.0.9","0.0.8","0.0.7","0.0.6","0.0.5","0.0.3","0.0.2","0.0.1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-4072.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"}]}