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CVE-2024-23686

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-23686 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting DependencyCheck for Maven, CLI, and Ant versions 9.0.0 through 9.0.6 (or 9.0.5 for CLI/Ant). When these tools are run in debug mode, an attacker can recover the NVD API Key from log files. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.3, indicating a low impact on confidentiality with no integrity or availability impact, and requires no user interaction or privileges to exploit over the network. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 9.0.0, <= 9.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:owasp:dependency-check:*:*:*:*:*:ant:*:*
>= 9.0.0, <= 9.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:owasp:dependency-check:*:*:*:*:*:cli:*:*
>= 9.0.0, < 9.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:owasp:dependency-check:*:*:*:*:*:maven:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
45.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0060 is in the 29th percentile among its peer group of 23,703 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.owasp:dependency-check-antFixed in: 9.0.6
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.owasp:dependency-check-cliFixed in: 9.0.6
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.owasp:dependency-check-mavenFixed in: 9.0.6
github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-frxm-v7q3-v2wvmedium

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File in OWASP DependencyCheck

Jan 20, 2024

References

github.com / advisories/GHSA-qqhq-8r2c-c3f5
Third Party Advisory
github.com / jeremylong/DependencyCheck/security/advisories/GHSA-qqhq-8r2c-c3f5
Vendor Advisory
vulncheck.com / advisories/vc-advisory-GHSA-qqhq-8r2c-c3f5
Third Party Advisory