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 5.6
Blueprint Studio terminal SSH private key written to disk
Blueprint Studio is a VS Code-like file editor for Home Assistant configuration files. Prior to 2.5.2, Blueprint Studio terminal SSH key authentication in custom_components/blueprint_studio/backend/terminal_manager.py wrote SSH private-key material to a file …
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Medium 6.9
Blueprint Studio stored Git credentials in plaintext Git credential store
Blueprint Studio is a VS Code-like file editor for Home Assistant configuration files. Prior to 2.5.2, Blueprint Studio configured Git's credential.helper store when saving Git credentials, causing Git credential-store to persist usernames and access tokens i…
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Medium 6.0
`HTTPPasswordMgr` can send saved HTTPS credentials via HTTP because of incorrect scheme matching
The HTTPPasswordMgr class in the urllib.request module, along with its subclasses HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm and HTTPPasswordMgrWithPriorAuth, did not take the URL scheme into account when matching stored credentials against a requested URL. Credentials …
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Medium 6.8
regclient may leak authentication credentials to external blob stores
regclient is a Docker and OCI Registry Client in Go. Prior to version 0.11.5, credentials for a registry may be inadvertently leaked to external servers. A prerequisite for this attack is a malicious registry server, a malicious blob store, or a registry that…
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Medium 6.5
Microsoft SharePoint Server Spoofing Vulnerability
Insufficiently protected credentials in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an authorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network.
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Medium 4.3
Microsoft Outlook Spoofing Vulnerability
Insufficiently protected credentials in Microsoft Office Outlook allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network.
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Medium 6.3
Multicluster-global-hub: multicluster-global-hub: spec-topic read acl leaks bootstrap kubeconfigs to all managed hubs during migration
A flaw was found in multicluster-global-hub. During a ManagedClusterMigration, the system incorrectly grants all managed hubs read access to a shared communication topic. This allows a compromised managed hub to intercept and collect sensitive bootstrap kubec…
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Medium 5.4
HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose insufficiently protects credentials
The default login portlet in HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose insufficiently protects credentials. Under certain very specific use cases and specific configurations, sensitive information may be written to web server logs. This only aff…
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Medium 6.2
Statamic CMS Unguarded Exposure of 2FA Recovery Codes via Antlers current_user Variable
Statamic CMS's user-augmentation resolver, AugmentedUser::get in src/Auth/AugmentedUser.php, contains an explicit case for the handle that returns the user's raw two-factor recovery codes with no access restriction.
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Medium 6.5
ESPHome web_server Plaintext Password Disclosure via JSON "value" Field
ESPHome through 2026.7.0-dev discloses plaintext passwords via its web_server component. In WebServer::text_json_ (esphome/components/web_server/web_server.cpp), a text entity configured with mode: password (TEXT_MODE_PASSWORD) has its JSON "state" field corr…
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Medium 5.3
guzzlehttp/guzzle before 7.14.2 Proxy-Authorization Header Disclosure
guzzlehttp/guzzle versions before 7.14.2 fail to properly isolate Proxy-Authorization headers from origin servers in cURL handlers. Attackers can capture proxy credentials through origin server access logs when requests are redirected, bypassed, or sent throu…
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Medium 6.5
foreUP customer REST API allows authenticated users to read cleartext payment-processor merchant credentials
A vulnerability in the foreUP customer REST API allows any authenticated user to read cleartext payment-processor merchant credentials in the response body.
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Medium 5.4
Insufficiently Protected Credentials in GitLab
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.8 before 19.0.5, 19.1 before 19.1.3, and 19.2 before 19.2.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed some sensitive information to be disclosed to an unintended host due to imp…
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Medium 4.3
Improper access control in the NetBox synchronizer in Devolutions Server allows an authenticated user with view-only pe…
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Medium 5.5
In OpenStack Ironic Python Agent through 11.5.0, a malicious bootc container, when deployed using ironic-python-agent, …
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Medium 6.5
@hapi/wreck: Sensitive credential headers leak across cross-port and cross-scheme redirects
@hapi/wreck is an HTTP client utility. Prior to 18.1.2, Wreck strips credential headers including Authorization, Cookie, and Proxy-Authorization before following a cross-origin redirect, but the origin check compares hostnames only and ignores scheme and port…
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Medium 6.3
@hapi/wreck : Sensitive `Proxy-Authorization` header leaked across cross-hostname redirects
@hapi/wreck is an HTTP client utility. Prior to 18.1.1, when @hapi/wreck follows a 3xx redirect to a different hostname, only the Authorization and Cookie headers are stripped, and the standard credential header Proxy-Authorization is forwarded intact to the …
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Medium 6.5
Excon: redact additional sensitive/risky headers when following redirects
Excon is usable, fast, simple HTTP 1.1 for Ruby. Prior to 1.5.0, Excon's RedirectFollower middleware failed to strip additional sensitive headers when following redirects and did not provide a custom list of headers to strip. This could cause inadvertent leak…
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Medium 4.3
Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: authenticator config endpoint exposes raw recaptcha secrets to view-only admins
A flaw was found in the authentication configuration endpoint of the keycloak-services component, which is the core engine for Red Hat Build of Keycloak identity and access management. The issue occurs because the system fails to mask sensitive configuration …
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Medium 6.5
OpenClaw < 2026.5.28 Bot Framework SSRF via serviceUrl Parameter Validation
OpenClaw versions before 2026.5.28 Bot Framework contains an improper input validation vulnerability that allows lower-trust callers to expose bot tokens and credentials by failing to properly validate serviceUrl parameters. Attackers can supply malicious ser…
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Medium 6.5
OpenClaw < 2026.5.27 Token Leakage via MS Teams Outbound Requests
OpenClaw versions before 2026.5.27 contain a token leakage vulnerability in MS Teams outbound requests that allows lower-trust callers to expose Bot Framework tokens. Attackers can access configured input paths to retrieve credentials that should remain withi…
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Medium 6.5
OpenClaw < 2026.6.5 Authorization Header Forwarding via SSE
OpenClaw before 2026.6.5 could forward Authorization headers during MCP SSE redirects. When the affected feature is enabled and reachable, a lower-trust caller or configured input path could execute or persist actions beyond the caller's intended authorizatio…
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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 6.8
Grav: Admin Backup Zip File Exposes Account Credentials and Configuration Secrets
Grav is a file-based Web platform. Prior to 1.7.53, an authenticated administrator with backup permissions can download a ZIP archive containing the full Grav installation root, including user/accounts/admin.yaml with the administrator password hash and user/…
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Medium 4.9
Insufficiently Protected Credentials in GitLab
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 9.5 before 18.11.7, 19.0 before 19.0.4, and 19.1 before 19.1.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user with maintainer-role permissions to obtain another us…
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Medium 4.8
uniFLOW Universal Login Manager (ULM) Standalone Improper Protection of Sensitive Information Leads to Information Disclosure
uniFLOW Universal Login Manager (ULM) Standalone contains an information disclosure vulnerability that may allow an authenticated administrator to access sensitive configuration information through the ULM Remote User Interface (RUI). Exploitation requires ad…
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Medium —
ORAS Go forwards registry credentials across registry redirects
# ORAS Go forwards registry credentials across registry redirects Reporter / public credit: JUNYI LIU ## Summary ORAS Go can forward registry credentials configured for one registry origin to a different HTTP origin during registry redirects. There are two re…
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Medium 6.5
Inappropriate implementation in Passwords in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker to leak cro…
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Medium 6.5
Parseable < 2.9.2 - Cleartext Credential Exposure in Notification Target API
Parseable before 2.9.2 contains an information disclosure vulnerability in the notification-target API endpoints that returns webhook tokens and basic-auth credentials in cleartext due to commented-out secret-masking functionality. Any authenticated user with…
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Medium 6.8
Information exposure vulnerability in Hitachi Storage Navigator
Information exposure vulnerability in Hitachi Storage Navigator. This issue affects Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5100, 5200, 5500, 5600, 5100H, 5200H, 5500H, 5600H, VX8: before DKCMAIN Ver. 90-09-24-00/00, SVP Ver. 90-09-24/00, before DKCMAIN Ver. 90-08-8…
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Medium 5.0
Dokku: Git Credentials in .netrc Stored World-Readable Due to Premature touch
Dokku is a docker-powered PaaS. Prior to 0.38.2, the git:auth command creates $DOKKU_ROOT/.netrc using bash's touch command, which applies the default umask of 0644. This pre-creation defeats the netrc binary's built-in 0600 permission setting, leaving git cr…
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Medium 6.5
EVoke Systems EVoke CSMS Insufficiently Protected Credentials
Charging station authentication identifiers are publicly accessible via web-based mapping platforms.
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Medium 6.5
pnpm: Repository config can expand victim environment secrets into registry requests before scripts run
pnpm is a package manager. Prior to 10.34.2 and 11.5.3, pnpm and pacquet expanded ${ENV_VAR} placeholders from repository-controlled .npmrc and pnpm-workspace.yaml into registry request destinations and registry credentials. A malicious repository could cause…
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Medium 6.9
pnpm binds unscoped user-level npm auth credentials to a repository-selected registry
pnpm is a package manager. Prior to 10.34.0 and 11.4.0, pnpm can send user-level unscoped npm authentication credentials to a registry chosen by a repository-local .npmrc file. In the reproduced case, the user's npm config contains a default registry and an u…
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Medium 5.5
motionEye: World-Readable Configuration File Exposes Admin Password Hash
motionEye (mEye) is an online interface for motion software, a video surveillance program with motion detection. Versions prior to 0.44.0 create the configuration file /etc/motioneye/motion.conf with 644 permissions (-rw-r--r--), making it readable by any loc…
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Medium 6.3
AIOHTTP: DigestAuthMiddleware Applies Credentials to Cross-Origin Redirect Challenges
AIOHTTP is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. Prior to 3.14.1, DigestAuthMiddleware can send an authentication response after following a cross-origin redirect. This likely requires an open redirect vulnerability or similar o…
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Medium 5.5
NTLMv2 hash disclosure via UNC path handling on Windows
launch-editor allows users to open files with line numbers in editor from Node.js. Prior to 2.14.1, the launch-editor NPM package accesses arbitrary paths including Windows UNC paths. When a UNC path is opened, Windows automatically attempts NTLM authenticati…
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Medium 6.3
Mattermost Desktop App fails to restrict the allow list of domains which NTLM credentials are passed
Mattermost Desktop App versions <=6.1 5.5.13.0 fail to restrict the allow list of domains to which NTLM credentials were forwarded to in the Mattermost Desktop App which allows any user on a server without the image proxy enabled to intercept other users cred…
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Medium 6.5
OpenClaw < 2026.5.2 - Credential Exposure via Model-Supplied Loopback URLs in message.action Forwarding
OpenClaw before 2026.5.2 contains a credential exposure vulnerability in message.action forwarding that allows model-controlled metadata to forward action payloads with Gateway credentials to attacker-supplied loopback URLs. Remote attackers can intercept Gat…
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Medium 5.3
CodexBar < 0.33.0 Credential Leakage via HTTP Redirect
CodexBar before 0.33.0 contains a credential forwarding vulnerability that allows network-adjacent attackers to intercept sensitive credentials by issuing cross-origin or HTTP-downgrade redirects to the shared ProviderHTTPClient transport. Attackers can redir…