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CWE-214: Invocation of Process Using Visible Sensitive Information

Base Incomplete

A process is invoked with sensitive command-line arguments, environment variables, or other elements that can be seen by other processes on the operating system.

Source: MITRE CWE-214

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  • Low 2.0

    Jolokia special agent exposes password in process list

    Invocation of the Jolokia special agent with the login password in the command line in Checkmk versions 2.5.0 before 2.5.0p16 allows a local user on the Checkmk server to read the Jolokia login password from the process list while the special agent is running…

  • Low 2.0

    NetApp ONTAP special agent exposes password in process list

    Invocation of the NetApp ONTAP special agent with the login password in the command line in Checkmk version 2.5.0 before 2.5.0p16 allows a local user on the Checkmk server to read the NetApp login password from the process list while the special agent is runn…

  • Low 2.5

    nvm exposes NVM_AUTH_HEADER to other local users on the curl/wget command line

    Node Version Manager (nvm) is a POSIX-compliant shell function for managing multiple node.js versions. In versions 0.40.0 through 0.40.8, when `NVM_AUTH_HEADER` is set, `nvm_download` passes the credential to curl or wget as a `--header "Authorization: ..."` …

  • Medium 6.5

    pgAdmin 4: Server passwords are left in pgAdmin's process environment

    To pass a server's password to psql and to the utilities pgAdmin 4 runs as background processes, the server manager wrote it into pgAdmin's own process environment: as PGPASSWORD for the PSQL tool, and under a per-process variable for a utility. Nothing remov…

  • Medium 6.5

    Insertion of sensitive information into a log file and process argument list in the Amazon Kinesis Producer Library for Java

    Insertion of sensitive information into a log file in Amazon Kinesis Producer Library for Java before 1.0.8, when the library's logger is configured at DEBUG log level, might allow local users to obtain the AWS credentials that the library resolved for the ap…

  • Medium 6.5

    Infinispan-operator: infinispan operator: sensitive information disclosure due pod args store

    A flaw was found in the Infinispan Operator for Red Hat Data Grid. When cross-site (xsite) TLS is enabled, the operator launches the Gossip Router container with keystore and truststore passwords passed as plain-text command-line arguments (`-tls_keystore_pas…

  • Medium 5.0

    Cockpit-machines: cockpit-appstream: vnc console password disclosure through virt-xml command-line arguments

    A flaw was found in cockpit-machines. When saving Virtual Network Computing (VNC) console settings, the configured password is passed directly as a command-line argument to an underlying system utility. A local unprivileged attacker on a host that allows cros…

  • Medium 5.0

    Cockpit-machines: cockpit-appstream: rhsm access-token disclosure through image helper command-line arguments

    A flaw was found in cockpit-machines. Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM) authentication tokens are passed as command-line arguments to background helper processes during image retrieval operations. A local, unprivileged attacker on a system permitting cro…

  • Medium 4.7

    Clevis: clevis: pkcs#11 token pin exposed on command line via pkcs11-tool

    A flaw was found in the clevis PKCS#11 pin. The clevis-decrypt-pkcs11 script passes the PKCS#11 token PIN as a command-line argument to pkcs11-tool, making it visible to any local user through process listing or the /proc filesystem.

  • Medium 5.7

    wsl-pro-service: Ubuntu Pro token exposed via process command-line arguments

    In wsl-pro-service before 0.1.19ubuntu3, the service component which runs as root inside each WSL instance attaches the instance to Ubuntu Pro by executing the pro client with the Ubuntu Pro token passed as a command-line argument (pro attach <token>). On sys…

  • Medium 6.5

    microsandbox: Secret values exposed in world-readable process arguments

    microsandbox is an easy, fast, local-first microVM runtime and library. Prior to 0.5.10, sdk/rust/lib/runtime/spawn.rs serializes NetworkConfig secret values into the --network-config argument and passes per-sandbox secrets through repeated --env arguments ac…

  • Medium 5.5

    Cockpit-machines: cockpit-machines: sensitive data exposure via command-line arguments

    A flaw was found in cockpit-machines. This vulnerability allows a local attacker to expose sensitive Virtual Machine (VM) credentials, including plaintext passwords, by inspecting process command-line arguments during VM creation or installation. The cockpit-…

  • Medium 5.0

    Cockpit-machines: cockpit-machines: sensitive data exposure of guest credentials via json argument in process list

    A flaw was found in `cockpit-machines`. This vulnerability allows a local attacker with the ability to inspect running processes to expose sensitive guest virtual machine (VM) credentials, such as `rootPassword` and `userPassword`. This occurs when the `insta…

  • Medium 5.0

    Cockpit-machines: cockpit-machines: information disclosure of rhsm offline token via process arguments

    A flaw was found in cockpit-machines. This vulnerability allows a local attacker with the ability to inspect process metadata to disclose a sensitive Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM) offline token. The token is exposed when it is passed as a command-lin…

  • Medium 6.2

    openssl_encrypt before 1.4.9 Information Disclosure via Command Line

    In openssl_encrypt (pip package openssl-encrypt) versions <= 1.4.8, the desktop GUI passes the steganography password to the CLI child process on the command line via the --stego-password argument (on both encrypt and decrypt paths) instead of via an environm…

  • Medium 5.5

    Ansible-collection-community-general: community.general: ipa_getkeytab does not set no_log on the bind_pw parameter, disclosing the ipa bind password in logs and process listings

    A flaw was found in the ipa_getkeytab module of the community.general Ansible collection. The module's bind_pw parameter, used to supply the LDAP simple-bind password when retrieving a Kerberos keytab, is not declared with no_log, unlike the sibling password …

  • Medium 5.5

    NVIDIA NemoClaw contains a vulnerability where an attacker could cause invocation of process using visible sensitive in…

  • High 7.1

    Invocation of Process Using Visible Sensitive Information in Black Duck blackduck-c-cpp 1.0.17 through 3.0.6 allows an …

  • Medium 5.5

    openssl_encrypt before 1.4.0 Password Exposure via CLI Argument

    openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.0 expose passwords passed via the --password CLI argument in process listings accessible to all system users. Attackers can read process arguments through ps aux or /proc/[pid]/cmdline to retrieve plaintext passwords and ke…

  • High 7.5

    GitPython before 3.1.55 Environment Variable Exfiltration via Remote.add()

    GitPython before 3.1.55 fails to disable environment variable expansion in Remote.create() and Submodule.add() URL handling, allowing attackers to exfiltrate secrets by supplying URLs containing variable references. Attackers can craft URLs with environment v…

  • Medium 5.0

    Exposure of OTP Secret Through Process Command-Line Arguments in TÜBİTAK BİLGEM's eta-otp-lock

    Invocation of process using visible sensitive information vulnerability in TÜBİTAK BİLGEM Software Technologies Research Institute eta-otp-lock allows System Footprinting. This issue affects eta-otp-lock: before 1.0.4.

  • Medium 4.4

    Tanium addressed an information disclosure vulnerability in Connect.

    Tanium addressed an information disclosure vulnerability in Connect.

  • Medium 5.5

    ubuntu-pro-client Information Disclosure via Cleartext Bearer Token Exposure in Process Command Line

    An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Canonical ubuntu-pro-client (formerly ubuntu-advantage-tools). The client validates Ubuntu Pro APT credentials by executing /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper using the download-file command. During this process, the sec…

  • High 7.9

    Sensitive Data Exposure in TUBITAK BILGEM's Pardus Domain Joiner

    Invocation of process using visible sensitive information vulnerability in TUBITAK BILGEM Software Technologies Research Institute Pardus Domain Joiner allows Excavation. This issue affects Pardus Domain Joiner: from 0.5.2 before 0.5.4.

  • Low 3.3

    OpenClaw < 2026.3.31 - Unsanitized Environment Variable Leakage in SSH Sandbox Backends

    OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 contains an environment variable leakage vulnerability in SSH-based sandbox backends that pass unsanitized process.env to child processes. Attackers can exploit this by leveraging non-default SSH environment forwarding configurations…

  • Medium 5.5

    PraisonAI Exposes Sensitive Environment Variable via Untrusted MCP Subprocess Execution

    PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to 4.5.128, PraisonAI’s MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration allows spawning background servers via stdio using user-supplied command strings (e.g., MCP("npx -y @smithery/cli ...")). These commands are execut…

  • High 7.4

    NATS credentials are exposed in monitoring port via command-line argv

    NATS-Server is a High-Performance server for NATS.io, a cloud and edge native messaging system. Prior to versions 2.11.15 and 2.12.6, if a nats-server is run with static credentials for all clients provided via argv (the command-line), then those credentials …

  • Medium 5.7

    Coolify leaksensitive information `email_change_code` in `/api/v1/teams/{team_id | current}/members` API endpoint

    Coolify is an open-source and self-hostable tool for managing servers, applications, and databases. Coolify versions prior to and including v4.0.0-beta.420.8 have an information disclosure vulnerability in the `/api/v1/teams/{team_id}/members` and `/api/v1/te…

  • Medium 6.6

    A malicious ACAP application can gain access to admin-level service account credentials used by legitimate ACAP applica…

  • Medium 4.1

    F5OS-A FIPS HSM vulnerability

    A vulnerability exists in F5OS-A software that allows a highly privileged authenticated attacker to access sensitive FIPS hardware security module (HSM) information on F5 rSeries systems.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (E…

  • Low 3.8

    BMC Control-M/Server cleartext database credentials in process lists and logs

    BMC Control-M/Server 9.0.21.300 displays cleartext database credentials in process lists and logs. An authenticated attacker with shell access could observe these credentials and use them to log in to the database server. For example, when Control-M/Server on…

  • Medium 6.0

    IBM MQ Operator information disclosure

    IBM MQ Container when used with the IBM MQ Operator LTS 2.0.0 through 2.0.29, MQ Operator CD 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.1.0 through 3.1.3, 3.3.0, 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.5.0, 3.5.1, and MQ Operator SC2 3.2.0 through 3.2.10 and configured with Cloud Pak for Integration Keycloak …

  • Medium 6.0

    Arctera eDiscovery Platform before 10.3.2, when Enterprise Vault Collection Module is used, places a cleartext password…

  • Medium 5.6

    IBM QRadar Suite Software information disclosure

    IBM QRadar Suite Software 1.10.12.0 through 1.10.23.0 and IBM Cloud Pak for Security 1.10.0.0 through 1.10.11.0 displays sensitive data improperly to a local privileged user, in non default configurations, during back-end commands which may result in the unex…

  • Medium 4.7

    toy-blog administrative token leaked through the command line parameter

    toy-blog is a headless content management system implementation. Starting in version 0.4.3 and prior to version 0.5.0, the administrative password was leaked through the command line parameter. The problem was patched in version 0.5.0. As a workaround, pass `…

  • High 7.1
    CVE-2024-4254 Public exploit

    Secrets Exfiltration in gradio-app/gradio

    The 'deploy-website.yml' workflow in the gradio-app/gradio repository, specifically in the 'main' branch, is vulnerable to secrets exfiltration due to improper authorization. The vulnerability arises from the workflow's explicit checkout and execution of code…

  • Low 3.8

    Information disclosure in mk_oracle Checkmk agent plugin

    Invocation of the sqlplus command with sensitive information in the command line in the mk_oracle Checkmk agent plugin before Checkmk 2.3.0b4 (beta), 2.2.0p24, 2.1.0p41 and 2.0.0 (EOL) allows the extraction of this information from the process list.

  • High 7.8

    CloudLinux CageFS 7.1.1-1 or below passes the authentication token as a command line argument. In some configurations t…

  • Medium 5.5

    Veracode Scan Jenkins Plugin vulnerable to information disclosure

    A credential-leak issue was discovered in related Veracode products before 2023-03-27. Veracode Scan Jenkins Plugin before 23.3.19.0, when configured for remote agent jobs, invokes the Veracode Java API Wrapper in a manner that allows local users (with OS-lev…

  • High 7.5

    Undertow vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks

    A flaw was found in Undertow that tripped the client-side invocation timeout with certain calls made over HTTP2. This flaw allows an attacker to carry out denial of service attacks.