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
1,021 results · Feed
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Unscored —
Ypsomed mylife Cloud, mylife Mobile Application:Ypsomed mylife Cloud,All versions prior to 1.7.2,Ypsomed mylife App,All…
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Unscored —
Ypsomed mylife Cloud, mylife Mobile Application:Ypsomed mylife Cloud,All versions prior to 1.7.2,Ypsomed mylife App,All…
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Medium 5.5
Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software Information Disclosure Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the CLI interface of Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to read arbitrary files on the underlying file system of an affected system. This vulnerability exists because access to sensitive information o…
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Critical 9.8
Learningdigital.com, Inc. Orca HCM - Hard-code password
The Orca HCM digital learning platform uses a weak factory default administrator password, which is hard-coded in the source code of the webpage in plain text, thus remote attackers can obtain administrator’s privilege without logging in.
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High 7.5
Basic-auth app bundle credential exposure in gatsby-source-wordpress
Gatsby is a framework for building websites. The gatsby-source-wordpress plugin prior to versions 4.0.8 and 5.9.2 leaks .htaccess HTTP Basic Authentication variables into the app.js bundle during build-time. Users who are not initializing basic authentication…
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Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability exists in EcoStruxure Control Expert (all versions prior to V15.0 SP…
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Unscored —
Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability exists in EcoStruxure Control Expert (all versions prior to V15.0 SP…
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Unscored —
Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability exists in EcoStruxure Control Expert (all versions prior to V15.0 SP…
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Critical 10.0
Unauthenticated credential leak and business logic flaw in Kaseya VSA <= v9.5.6
Kaseya VSA before 9.5.7 allows credential disclosure, as exploited in the wild in July 2021. By default Kaseya VSA on premise offers a download page where the clients for the installation can be downloaded. The default URL for this page is https://x.x.x.x/dl.…
KEV Nov 3, 2021 -
Medium 6.2
Cisco ThousandEyes Recorder Information Disclosure Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the installer software of Cisco ThousandEyes Recorder could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to access sensitive information that is contained in the ThousandEyes Recorder installer software. This vulnerability exists because sensit…
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A flaw was found in ceph-dashboard. The JSON Web Token (JWT) used for user authentication is stored by the frontend app…
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Unscored —
In Versa Director, Versa Analytics and VOS, Passwords are not hashed using an adaptive cryptographic hash function or k…
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Medium 5.9
Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP May Reveal S3 Store's Proxy Password
The Portal Store module in Liferay Portal 7.0.0 through 7.3.5, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 97, 7.1 before fix pack 21, 7.2 before fix pack 10 and 7.3 before fix pack 1 does not obfuscate the S3 store's proxy password, which allows attackers to steal t…
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A flaw was found in noobaa-operator in versions before 5.7.0, where internal RPC AuthTokens between the noobaa operator…
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High 7.5
WAGO: Managed Switches: Unauthorized access to password hashes
In multiple managed switches by WAGO in different versions it is possible to read out the password hashes of all Web-based Management users.
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High 7.5
Ansible Exposes Sensitive Information
A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine 2.9.18, where sensitive info is not masked by default and is not protected by the no_log feature when using the sub-option feature of the basic.py module. This flaw allows an attacker to obtain sensitive information. The…
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Critical 9.8
MERIT LILIN ENT.CO.,LTD. P2/Z2/P3/Z3 IP camera - Broken Authentication
The manage users profile services of the network camera device allows an authenticated. Remote attackers can modify URL parameters and further amend user’s information and escalate privileges to control the devices.
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High 7.5
Misapplied Zookeeper ACLs can result in leakage of configured authentication and authorization settings
When starting Apache Solr versions prior to 8.8.2, configured with the SaslZkACLProvider or VMParamsAllAndReadonlyDigestZkACLProvider and no existing security.json znode, if the optional read-only user is configured then Solr would not treat that node as a se…
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Client TLS credentials sent raw to server in npm package nats
Nats is a Node.js client for the NATS messaging system. ## Problem Description _Preview versions_ of two NPM packages and one Deno package from the NATS project contain an information disclosure flaw, leaking options to the NATS server; for one package, this …
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Critical 9.8
Vangene deltaFlow E-platform - Broken Authentication
The Vangene deltaFlow E-platform does not take properly protective measures. Attackers can obtain privileged permissions remotely by tampering with users’ data in the Cookie.
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Medium 6.5
Passwords stored in plain text by Jenkins Jabber (XMPP) notifier and control Plugin
Jenkins Jabber (XMPP) notifier and control Plugin 1.41 and earlier stores passwords unencrypted in its global configuration file on the Jenkins controller where they can be viewed by users with access to the Jenkins controller file system.
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High 7.8
Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Common Industrial Protocol Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the CLI command permissions of Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to retrieve the password for Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) and then remotely configure the device as an administrative user. …
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A flaw was found in atomic-openshift of openshift-4.2 where the basic-user RABC role in OpenShift Container Platform do…
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Unscored —
A privilege escalation flaw was found in OpenShift builder. During build time, credentials outside the build context ar…
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Critical 9.8
Rockwell Automation Studio 5000 Logix Designer Versions 21 and later, and RSLogix 5000 Versions 16 through 20 use a key…
KEV Mar 5, 2026 -
Medium 4.4
SaltStack Salt Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information via cmdmod
An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. salt.modules.cmdmod can log credentials to the info or error log level.
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A flaw was found in the GNOME Control Center in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 versions prior to 8.2, where it improperly u…
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In SOOIL Developments Co., Ltd Diabecare RS, AnyDana-i and AnyDana-A, an information disclosure vulnerability in the co…
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Medium 4.8
Insufficiently Protected Credentials in Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch versions 7.7.0 to 7.10.1 contain an information disclosure flaw in the async search API. Users who execute an async search will improperly store the HTTP headers. An Elasticsearch user with the ability to read the .tasks index could obtain sensi…
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Medium 5.5
Credentials stored in plain text by Jenkins Bumblebee HP ALM Plugin
Jenkins Bumblebee HP ALM Plugin 4.1.5 and earlier stores credentials unencrypted in its global configuration file on the Jenkins controller where they can be viewed by users with access to the Jenkins controller file system.
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Medium 5.5
Credentials stored in plain text by Jenkins TraceTronic ECU-TEST Plugin
Jenkins TraceTronic ECU-TEST Plugin 2.23.1 and earlier stores credentials unencrypted in its global configuration file on the Jenkins controller where they can be viewed by users with access to the Jenkins controller file system.
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Unscored —
A vulnerability has been identified in Opcenter Execution Core (V8.2), Opcenter Execution Core (V8.3). The application …
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Medium 6.3
Hard-coded Password Vulnerability in QES
A hard-coded password vulnerability has been reported to affect earlier versions of QES. If exploited, this vulnerability could allow attackers to log in with a hard-coded password. QNAP has already fixed the issue in QES 2.1.1 Build 20200515 and later.
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Critical 9.8
Firmware version 4.60 of Zyxel USG devices contains an undocumented account (zyfwp) with an unchangeable password. The …
KEV Nov 3, 2021 -
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User credentials can be manipulated and stolen by Native CephFS consumers of OpenStack Manila, resulting in potential p…
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Unscored —
A vulnerability has been identified in LOGO! 8 BM (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions < V8.3). The password used for …
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Unscored —
A CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability exists in EcoStruxure Geo SCADA Expert 2019 (Original rel…
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Unscored —
Insufficient protection of the server-side encryption keys in Nextcloud Server 19.0.1 allowed an attacker to replace th…
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Unscored —
Insufficient protection of the server-side encryption keys in Nextcloud Server 19.0.1 allowed an attacker to replace th…
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Low 3.3
Password stored in plain text by Jenkins VMware Lab Manager Slaves Plugin
Jenkins VMware Lab Manager Slaves Plugin 0.2.8 and earlier stores a password unencrypted in the global config.xml file on the Jenkins controller where it can be viewed by users with access to the Jenkins controller file system.