CVE-2020-4072: Jhipster Generator-Jhipster-Kotlin

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In generator-jhipster-kotlin version 1.6.0 log entries are created for invalid password reset attempts. As the email is provided by a user and the api is public this can be used by an attacker to forge log entries. This is vulnerable to https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/117.html This problem affects only application generated with jwt or session authentication. Applications using oauth are not vulnerable. This issue has been fixed in version 1.7.0.

Affected products

• Jhipster Generator-Jhipster-Kotlin: before 1.7.0 (fixed in 1.7.0)

Published 2020-06-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.