CVE-2024-6104 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6) CWE-532 vulnerability in github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp. A fix is available for github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp — see the affected versions and patch details below.
go-retryablehttp can leak basic auth credentials to log files
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2024-6104.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-6104 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 378,156 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttpReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Go packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
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.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐹Go | github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp | all versions | 0.7.7go get github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp@v0.7.7 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp to 0.7.7 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2024-6104 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like CVE-2024-6104 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to CVE-2024-6104. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| CLUSTER-OBSERVABILITY-OPERATOR-0.4-RHEL-8 | cluster-observability-operator/cluster-observability-operator-bundle:0.4.1-18 | RHSA-2024:8040 |
| multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.5 for RHEL 8 | multicluster-engine/hive-rhel8:v2.5.7-1 | RHSA-2024:6738 |
| OpenShift Custom Metrics Autoscaler 2 | custom-metrics-autoscaler/custom-metrics-autoscaler-adapter-rhel8:2.14.1-454 | RHBA-2024:5865 |
| OpenShift-Pipelines-1.16-RHEL-8 | openshift-pipelines-client-0:1.16.0-11647.el8 | RHEA-2024:7866 |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.4 | advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-central-db-rhel8:4.4.5-2 | RHSA-2024:6054 |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 8.1 | rhceph/grafana-rhel9:11.5.2-6 | RHSA-2025:9776 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | container-tools:rhel8-8100020240808093819.afee755d | RHSA-2024:5258 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support | container-tools:rhel8-8080020240724065004.0f77c1b7 | RHSA-2024:5194 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-6104 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds CVE-2024-6104 across Go dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.