CVE-2024-5764mediumCWE-798

CVE-2024-5764: medium-severity vulnerability in Sonatype Nexus Repository

Nexus Repository 3 - Static hard-coded encryption passphrase used by default

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No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 5.9epss 0.4%
Use of Hard-coded Credentials vulnerability in Sonatype Nexus Repository has been discovered in the code responsible for encrypting any secrets stored in the Nexus Repository configuration database (SMTP or HTTP proxy credentials, user tokens, tokens, among others). The affected versions relied on a static hard-coded encryption passphrase. While it was possible for an administrator to define an alternate encryption passphrase, it could only be done at first boot and not updated. This issue affects Nexus Repository: from 3.0.0 through 3.72.0.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
Sonatype · Nexus Repository
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