CVE-2023-51390: Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Journalpump

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-12-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-215

Description

journalpump is a daemon that takes log messages from journald and pumps them to a given output. A logging vulnerability was found in journalpump which logs out the configuration of a service integration in plaintext to the supplied logging pipeline, including credential information contained in the configuration if any. The problem has been patched in journalpump 2.5.0.

Affected products

Aiven-Open journalpump: before 2.5.0 — fixed in 2.5.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Aiven-Open journalpump 2.5.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/Aiven-Open/journalpump/commit/390e69bc909ba16ad5f7b577010b4afc303361da
https://github.com/Aiven-Open/journalpump/security/advisories/GHSA-738v-v386-8r6g
https://github.com/Aiven-Open/journalpump/commit/390e69bc909ba16ad5f7b577010b4afc303361da
https://github.com/Aiven-Open/journalpump/security/advisories/GHSA-738v-v386-8r6g

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