Exposed Spring Boot Actuator on the website of a Swiss software development company in the Swiss health sector allowed an attacker to access sensitive data such as technical user credentials
Swiss Health Sector
NTCF:
NTCF-2023-12285
Product:
Classified
Vendor:
Classified
Criticality:
high
Status:
fixed
Discovered:
2023-09-19
Detail:
Classified
Description
In accordance with the NTC Vulnerability Disclosure Policy, the details of this vulnerability will not be publicly disclosed.
Neither the product and vendor name nor a detailed description of the vulnerability will be publicly released if all of the following conditions are met:
- the vendor fixes the vulnerability without requiring any action by the affected parties (e.g. a cloud service where the user is not required to install patches)
- there is no indication that the vulnerability has been exploited (e.g. in the log files)
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Timeline
2023-09-19: initial discovery
2023-09-19: first contact to vendor
2023-10-02: private disclosure to vendor
2023-10-09: fix by vendor
2024-06-20: public disclosure