Vulnerability GHSA-88f9-7xxh-c688

High Risk
HIGH RISK
CVSS Score: 8.8
Score Range: 7.0–8.9
High severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 7.0–8.9). Serious vulnerabilities that should be prioritized soon after critical fixes.
5 years ago
August 30, 2021 at 04:11 PM UTC
Cachet configuration leak
0.1.0-alpha - 2.4.1
0.1.0-alpha - 2.4.1

Summary

Cachet configuration leak

Details

Impact

Authenticated users, regardless of their privileges (User or Admin), can leak the value of any configuration entry of the dotenv file, e.g. the application secret (APP_KEY) and various passwords (email, database, etc).

Patches

This issue was addressed by improving UpdateConfigCommandHandler and preventing the use of nested variables in the resulting dotenv configuration file.

Workarounds

Only allow trusted source IP addresses to access to the administration dashboard.

References

Further technical details are available at https://blog.sonarsource.com/cachet-code-execution-via-laravel-configuration-injection.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, you can contact:

  • The original reporters, by sending an email to vulnerability.research [at] sonarsource.com;
  • The maintainers, by opening an issue on this repository.

Impacted packages

Timeline

Published
5 years ago
August 30, 2021 at 04:11 PM UTC
Last Modified
3 months ago
July 08, 2026 at 06:27 AM UTC