# CVE-2024-31216: source-controller leaks theAzure Storage SAS token into logs on connection errors

- Also known as: GO-2024-2859, GHSA-V554-XWGW-HC3W
- Severity: CVSS 5.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.2.5
- Published: 2024-05-15 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- fluxcd source-controller: fixed in 1.2.5
- github.com/fluxcd/source-controller (Go): fixed in 1.2.5

## Description

The source-controller is a Kubernetes operator, specialised in artifacts acquisition from external sources such as Git, OCI, Helm repositories and S3-compatible buckets. The source-controller implements the source.toolkit.fluxcd.io API and is a core component of the GitOps toolkit. Prior to version 1.2.5, when source-controller was configured to use an Azure SAS token when connecting to Azure Blob Storage, the token was logged along with the Azure URL when the controller encountered a connection error. An attacker with access to the source-controller logs could use the token to gain access to the Azure Blob Storage until the token expires. This vulnerability was fixed in source-controller v1.2.5. There is no workaround for this vulnerability except for using a different auth mechanism such as Azure Workload Identity.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on fluxcd source-controller, github.com/fluxcd/source-controller, upgrade to a fixed version (1.2.5) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/fluxcd/source-controller/security/advisories/GHSA-v554-xwgw-hc3w
- https://github.com/fluxcd/source-controller/pull/1430
- https://github.com/fluxcd/source-controller/commit/915d1a072a4f37dd460ba33079dc094aa6e72fa9

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