Weakness (CWE)
CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials
The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.
How to prevent it (3 mitigations)
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Architecture and Design
Use an appropriate security mechanism to protect the credentials.
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Architecture and Design
Make appropriate use of cryptography to protect the credentials.
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Implementation
Use industry standards to protect the credentials (e.g. LDAP, keystore, etc.).
Source: MITRE CWE-522
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Medium 5.9
AsyncHttpClient: Origin credentials sent to the proxy on the plaintext CONNECT request
The AsyncHttpClient (AHC) library allows Java applications to easily execute HTTP requests and asynchronously process HTTP responses. From 2.0.0 until 2.16.1 and 3.0.12, a request using an HTTP proxy to reach an HTTPS origin can expose preemptive origin crede…
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Medium 6.8
AsyncHttpClient: Client-wide realm credentials re-sent to a cross-origin redirect target
The AsyncHttpClient (AHC) library allows Java applications to easily execute HTTP requests and asynchronously process HTTP responses. From 2.14.5 to 2.16.0 and from 3.0.9 to 3.0.11, a client configured with a client-wide Realm and redirect following can discl…
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Medium 6.5
pgAdmin 4: Connection-string injection via the database field in the Restore and Maintenance tools
pgAdmin 4's Restore and Maintenance tools passed the client-supplied 'database' field directly as the value of the --dbname option given to pg_restore and psql. libpq expands a database name containing an equals sign into a full connection string, and connect…
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Medium 5.3
All-in-One WP Migration and Backup <= 7.110 - Unauthenticated Insufficient Credential Protection via Authorization Basic Header
The All-in-One WP Migration and Backup plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insufficient Credential Protection in versions up to, and including, 7.110. This is due to the `Ai1wm_Main_Controller::init()` method — registered on the `admin_init` hook, which fir…
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Medium 6.5
SecObserve before 1.59.1 Information Disclosure via API Configuration
SecObserve versions before 1.59.1 contain an information disclosure vulnerability in the ApiConfigurationSerializer that fails to strip the basic_auth_password field from API configuration responses. View-only product members can retrieve the decrypted basic-…
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Medium 5.4
Jenkins GitLab Plugin 1.2149.vcfc32c82b_f7f and earlier caches the GitLab API client built for alternative GitLab API t…
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Medium 6.5
Netcore NR255-V 1.5.130703 IPsec PSK and RSA Key Disclosure via l2tpd_config_show.cgi Read Handlers
NR255-V version 1.5.130703 contains a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in l2tpd_config_show_cgi.c, ipsec_show_cgi.c, and mod_vpn_remote/plan.json read handlers. Attackers can query l2tpd_config_show.cgi to expose stored IPsec PSK and RSA key mat…
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Medium 6.5
Netcore NR255-V 1.5.130703 Sensitive Information Disclosure via VPN Read Handlers
Netcore NR255-V version 1.5.130703 contains a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in mod_vpn_remote/plan.json, pptpd_user_show.cgi, pptp_client_config_show.cgi, and l2tpd_user_show.cgi. Attackers can leverage these components to obtain PPTP and L2T…
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Medium 6.5
Netcore NR255-V 1.5.130703 Sensitive Information Disclosure via user_pass_show.cgi
Netcore NR255-V version 1.5.130703 contains a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in the user_pass_show.cgi component. Low-privilege attackers can exploit this flaw via ui_config_2.xml and misc.js to disclose router credentials.
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Medium 6.5
Netcore NR255-V 1.5.130703 Plaintext DDNS Credential Disclosure via ddns_wan_list_show.cgi
Netcore NR255-V firmware version 1.5.130703 contains a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in the ddns_wan_list_show.cgi endpoint and related DDNSset_cgi, IGD_GetCgiHandler, and IGD_CgiCall components. Attackers who reach this CGI handler can obtai…
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Medium 6.5
Netcore NR255-V 1.5.130703 Sensitive Information Disclosure via l7_web_auth_user_show.cgi
Netcore NR255-V version 1.5.130703 contains a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in l7_web_auth_user_show.cgi related to captive-portal credential handling. Attackers can query this component to obtain captive-portal user credentials, compromising…
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Medium 4.3
Vikunja before 2.6.0 TOTP Secret Disclosure via API
Vikunja before 2.6.0 continues to expose the raw TOTP shared secret after enrollment through the GET /api/v1/user/settings/totp and /api/v1/user/settings/totp/qrcode endpoints without re-authentication. Attackers with a valid access token can read the secret,…
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Medium 6.5
Apache Storm Nimbus, Apache Storm UI: Disclosure of Unredacted Daemon Configuration via Nimbus and the UI
Description `getNimbusConf` returned the complete daemon configuration without redaction after only a user-level authorization check. Where the cluster is configured with them, that response includes `storm.zookeeper.auth.payload` and the keystore and trustst…
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Medium 6.5
Apache Storm Nimbus, Apache Storm UI: Disclosure of Unredacted Merged Daemon Configuration via the Topology Page
Description getTopologyPageInfo merged the Nimbus daemon configuration with the topology's own configuration and returned the result without redaction in the topology_conf field of TopologyPageInfo. The Storm UI copied that value verbatim into the configurati…
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Medium 4.9
Apache Syncope: Nested secrets leak cleartext into audit records readable
Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability in Apache Syncope. Audit events, when sent to the configured store, are not sufficiently masked for the sensitive values they might carry on their payloads, thus allowing administrators to access such sensiti…
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Medium 6.3
Insufficiently protected credentials issue exists in Remote I/O Coupler Unit (Server Type) CPSN-MCB271-*. If this vulne…
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Medium 5.9CVE-2026-81861 Public exploit
CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability that could result in exposure of authentication information…
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Medium 6.5
Microsoft Office Spoofing Vulnerability
Insufficiently protected credentials in Microsoft Office allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network.
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Medium 6.5
GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Insufficiently protected credentials in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
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Medium 6.5
Insufficiently Protected Credentials in MongoDB Server Diagnostic Reporting Interface
A security issue in MongoDB Server's diagnostic reporting interface allows an authenticated user with monitoring privileges to access insufficiently protected credentials from concurrent administrative operations. The same credentials are properly redacted in…
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Medium 6.5
AVideo through 29.0 Information Disclosure via restreamsActive.json.php
AVideo through 29.0 contains an information disclosure vulnerability in restreamsActive.json.php that allows authenticated streamers to enumerate source stream keys and identities of all other streamers' active restreams. The endpoint fails to filter results …
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Medium 6.5
NetBox through 4.7.0 Credential Disclosure via REST and GraphQL APIs
NetBox through 4.7.0 fails to redact sensitive data source backend credentials in REST and GraphQL API responses. Authenticated users with only view permission can retrieve plaintext passwords and secret keys for Git and Amazon S3 backends through API endpoin…
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Medium 6.5
Onyx 4.6.6 Custom Tool Secret Header Disclosure via Tool Endpoints
Onyx 4.6.6 fails to properly restrict access to custom tool credentials stored in custom_headers, allowing any authenticated user to read admin-defined API keys. Attackers with basic authentication can call GET /tool/{tool_id} or GET /tool endpoints to retrie…
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Medium 6.1
UpSignOn < 7.19.0 Biometric Key Exposure via Windows PasswordVault
UpSignOn for Windows before 7.19.0 contains an insecure credential storage vulnerability that allows local attackers to retrieve the biometric unlock key stored in the Windows PasswordVault API without triggering any authentication prompt. Attackers can acces…
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Medium 5.9
MariaDB Connector/R2DBC: Cleartext password disclosure to a man-in-the-middle server (clear-text auth plugins not gated on a secure transport)
MariaDB Connector/R2DBC is a non-blocking MariaDB and MySQL client implemented in Java. Prior to 1.4.1, org.mariadb:r2dbc-mariadb does not gate clear-text password authentication plugins on transport encryption because the AuthenticationPlugin interface has n…
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Medium 5.9
MariaDB Connector/J: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information and Insufficiently Protected Credentials
MariaDB Connector/J is used to connect applications developed in Java to MariaDB and MySQL databases. Prior to 2.7.14, 3.3.5, 3.4.3, and 3.5.9, PAM dialog authentication can be coerced into transmitting the account password over an insecure connection. The my…
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Medium 5.9
MariaDB Connector/J: Cleartext password disclosure to a MITM on the initial-handshake
MariaDB Connector/J is used to connect applications developed in Java to MariaDB and MySQL databases. Prior to 2.7.14, 3.3.5, 3.4.3, and 3.5.9, when a Java application connects with sslMode=verify-full or sslMode=verify-ca, supplies a password, and does not c…
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Medium 5.9
MariaDB Connector/Node.js: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information and Insufficiently Protected Credentials in mariadb
MariaDB Connector/Node.js is used to connect applications developed on Node.js to MariaDB and MySQL databases. Prior to 3.2.4, 3.3.3, 3.4.6, and 3.5.3, MariaDB Connector/Node.js can disclose an account password when PAM dialog authentication is negotiated ove…
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Medium 6.8
gitoxide 0.25.4 HTTP Credential Leak via Redirect
gitoxide versions from 0.25.4 contain an HTTP credential leak vulnerability in the curl-based transport backend where credentials are sent to attacker-controlled servers after HTTP redirects. The vulnerability occurs because credential validation checks the o…
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Medium 6.5
Wazuh discloses cleartext cluster key to low-privilege API users via GET /cluster/local/config
Wazuh is an open-source security platform providing unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads. In versions 4.14.0 through 4.14.6, a low-privilege API user can read the cleartext cluster key from a configuration endpoint that fails to r…
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Medium 4.6
Ebyte NE2-D11 Insufficiently Protected Credentials
Administrative credentials may be exposed in plaintext within the Ebyte device's management interface, increasing the risk of credential compromise through visual or remote observation. This undermines the confidentiality of device access.
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Medium 5.6
NVIDIA NemoClaw contains a vulnerability where an attacker could cause insufficiently protected credentials . A success…
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Medium 5.3
rclone before v1.75.0 Credential Exposure via S3 Redirect
rclone before v1.75.0 fails to sanitize IBM IAM bearer tokens and SSE-C encryption keys during S3 redirect callbacks, allowing credentials to be preserved across scheme or host changes. Attackers observing network traffic from a trusted endpoint can capture r…
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Medium 5.3
rclone before v1.75.0 WebDAV Credential Exposure via HTTPS-to-HTTP Redirect
rclone versions before v1.75.0 fail to reject transport downgrades in redirect handling, allowing Basic authorization and Cookie headers to be replayed over plaintext HTTP after same-host HTTPS-to-HTTP redirects. An on-path attacker observing the plaintext ho…
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Medium 6.5
Grav before 2.0.16 Information Disclosure via offsetGet
Grav before 2.0.16 allows sandboxed Twig templates to access sensitive User fields through allow-listed offsetGet() and offsetexists() methods that lack field filtering. Attackers with page-edit permissions can call offsetGet() on User objects to extract hash…
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Medium 6.5
Dolibarr < 24.0.0 Members REST API Sensitive Data Exposure via Member Endpoints
Dolibarr before 24.0.0 contains a sensitive data exposure vulnerability in the Members REST API that allows authenticated attackers with member-read rights to retrieve bcrypt password verifiers by querying member endpoints. Attackers can call the individual m…
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Medium 5.9
Infracost: Terraform Cloud and registry token disclosure via unvalidated hostname
Infracost provides cloud cost intelligence for engineers, AI coding agents, and CI/CD. Prior to 0.10.45, internal/hcl/remote_variables_loader.go and related Terraform Cloud, remote-plan, and Terragrunt registry request paths can attach a configured Terraform …
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Medium 6.9
Kerberos Hub private key (X-Kerberos-Hub-PrivateKey) leaked to cross-host redirect target due to redirect-following HTTP client without CheckRedirect
Kerberos Agent is an open source video (surveillance) management agent. Prior to version 3.6.26, the Kerberos Hub upload path sends the agent's Hub credentials in the custom `X-Kerberos-Hub-PrivateKey` and `X-Kerberos-Hub-PublicKey` request headers to the ope…
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Medium 6.5
libgit2: HTTP transport can leak credentials to an offsite redirect target
libgit2 is a portable C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a linkable library with a solid API, allowing to build Git functionality into your application. Prior to 1.8.6 and 1.9.5, the built-in HTTP transport in src/libgit2/transports/http.c f…
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Medium 6.9
HDD Password leakage vulnerability
On ARM platforms, a vulnerability in the architecture design of HDD Password could allow an attacker to retrieve HDD Password from UEFI variables.