Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-6104: Important priority package update for amazon-cloudwatch-agent

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-6104: Important priority package update for amazon-cloudwatch-agent

Severity

4

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N)

Published

06/24/2024

Created

02/14/2025

Added

02/14/2025

Modified

02/14/2025

Description

go-retryablehttp prior to 0.7.7 did not sanitize urls when writing them to its log file. This could lead to go-retryablehttp writing sensitive HTTP basic auth credentials to its log file. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-6104, was fixed in go-retryablehttp 0.7.7. A vulnerability was found in go-retryablehttp. The package may suffer from a lack of input sanitization by not cleaning up URL data when writing to the logs. This issue could expose sensitive authentication information.

Solution(s)

• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-amazon-cloudwatch-agent

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2024-6104
• CVE - 2024-6104
• https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2024-708.html