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SpiceDB leaks information in log files when URI cannot be parsed

GHSA-jg7w-cxjv-98c2 · CVE-2023-46255 · GO-2023-2166

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Description

SpiceDB is an open source, Google Zanzibar-inspired database for creating and managing security-critical application permissions. When the provided datastore URI is malformed (e.g. by having a password which contains :) the full URI (including the provided password) is printed, so that the password is shown in the logs. Version 1.27.0-rc1 patches this issue.

Example output:

terminated with errors error="unable to create migration driver for postgres: parse \"postgres://spicedb:<PASSWORD IN PLAINTEXT>": invalid port \"<PASSWORD IN PLAINTEXT>\" after host"

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