aria2 1.33.1 Password Disclosure

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-3500  
Publish Date: 02 Jan 2019
                # Exploit Title: Metadata and potential password leak in aria2
# Date: 2019-01-02
# Exploit Author: Dhiraj Mishra
# Software Link: https://github.com/aria2/aria2
# Version: aria2 1.33.1
# Tested on: Linux 4.15.0-38-generic
# CVE: CVE-2019-3500

## Summary
aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol command-line utility, which leaks
data or potential password via `--log=` attribute for HTTP based
authentication which might allow local attackers to obtain sensitive
information.

It was observed that URL's which gets downloaded via `--log=` attribute
storeas sensitive information.
Example: aria2c --log=file https://user:passwd@example.com/


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