Detections
Analytics

SCA: security update for com.typesafe.akka:akka-stream-kafka_2.12, com.typesafe.akka:akka-stream-kafka_2.13, com.typesafe.akka:akka-stream-kafka_3 (GHSA-55vq-xpjf-r2xc)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421705

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Lightbend Alpakka Kafka before 5.0.0 logs its configuration as debug information, and thus log files may
 contain credentials (if plain cleartext login is configured). This occurs in
 akka.kafka.internal.KafkaConsumerActor. (CVE-2023-29471)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-55vq-xpjf-r2xc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421705

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-29471

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/27/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-29471