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 5.4
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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Critical 9.1
Security vulnerabilities have been addressed in IBM Verify Identity Access and IBM Security Verify Access
IBM Verify Identity Access containers may not apply management password change operations correctly.
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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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Critical 10.0
Apache Storm Nimbus, Apache Storm Client: Disclosure of the Topology ZooKeeper Credential to Read-Only Users and to Logs
Description When ZooKeeper authentication is configured, Storm deliberately retains `storm.zookeeper.topology.auth.payload` in the topology configuration, because workers need it. Nimbus then served that configuration verbatim to any caller holding read-only …
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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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High 8.4
MISP Interactive CLI Shell: Authorization Bypass, Credential Exposure, and Terminal Injection
Affected versions of MISP’s interactive CLI shell implement access control independently from the normal web application, causing several authorization inconsistencies. The patch shows that CLI access could differ from the web application in multiple security…
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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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Low 3.7
rclone: http backend forwards custom/auth headers to a different host on redirect
rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. From 1.49.0 until 1.75.1, the HTTP backend attaches headers configured through --http-headers or headers= to requests in backend/http/http.go, while …
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High 7.5
.NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
External control of file name or path in .NET allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
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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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High 7.7
Azure CycleCloud Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Insufficiently protected credentials in Azure CycleCloud allows an authorized 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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High 8.2
Workload identity attestation generated before login host validation in Snowflake drivers
In affected Snowflake drivers, WORKLOAD_IDENTITY authentication requests a cloud workload-identity token and attaches it to the login request without verifying that the configured host is a Snowflake endpoint. An attacker who can modify the connection configu…
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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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Critical 9.8
Netis NX10 Credential Disclosure via sysinfo Diagnostic Endpoint
Netis NX10 firmware V4.0.1.5808 and V3.0.0.4142 contain an information disclosure vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to retrieve the administrator password by sending a request to the sysinfo action in the web management interface without a v…
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Critical 9.4
Credential disclosure in multitenant applications using SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP)
@sap/cds-mtxs NPM library does not perform sufficient checks on certain functionality used in multitenant CAP applications with extensibility enabled. An unauthenticated attacker could send specially crafted requests to obtain sensitive credentials and abuse …
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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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High 7.1
nebula-mesh: Operator session tokens stored in plaintext in the database
nebula-mesh is a self-hosted control plane for Slack Nebula mesh VPN. Prior to version 0.3.8, Operator session tokens are stored in plaintext in the operator_sessions table (the token column is the PRIMARY KEY). The session token is a 32-byte random hex value…
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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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High 7.5
Vulnerabilities exists in IBM Netezza Software
IBM Netezza Software 11.3.0.3 through Interim Fix 002 has credentials that are hardcoded in the application source code, allowing unauthorized access to the container registry. The exposed secret enables attackers to pull private container images, potentially…
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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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High —
MySQL2: Auth Plugin Downgrade to mysql_clear_password Leaks Plaintext Credentials
## Summary A rogue MySQL server (or MITM) can force mysql2 to send credentials in **plaintext** by requesting an auth switch to `mysql_clear_password`. The driver complies without verifying that TLS is active. ## Details `mysql_clear_password` is registered a…
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High 7.7
Kyverno before 1.16.4 Credential Leak via apiCall
Kyverno before 1.16.4 automatically attaches the admission controller's ServiceAccount token to outbound HTTP requests in apiCall service mode without explicit authorization headers. Attackers can exfiltrate the token by directing apiCall requests to external…
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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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High 7.5
MariaDB Connector/Node.js: Connector leaks the cleartext password to an MitM despite `ssl: true`
MariaDB Connector/Node.js is used to connect applications developed on Node.js to MariaDB and MySQL databases. Prior to versions 3.3.3, 3.4.6, and 3.5.3, when ssl is enabled without a pinned CA or server certificate, MariaDB Connector/Node.js sends credential…
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High 7.5
Stable Diffusion WebUI Credential Disclosure via /sdapi/v1/cmd-flags
Stable Diffusion WebUI through 1.10.1 contains a credential disclosure vulnerability in the /sdapi/v1/cmd-flags endpoint that returns parsed command-line arguments including gradio_auth and api_auth values in cleartext. Unauthenticated attackers can access th…
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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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High 7.5
gitoxide before 0.37.1 HTTP Basic credential leak via URL parsing
gitoxide's gix-url crate (<= 0.32.0, fixed in 0.37.1) uses a hand-rolled URL parser that does not treat '?' or '#' as terminating the authority component, contrary to RFC 3986. As a consequence, gix-transport's HTTP redirect identity guard (can_reuse_identity…