Weakness (CWE)
CWE-524: Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information
The code uses a cache that contains sensitive information, but the cache can be read by an actor outside of the intended control sphere.
How to prevent it (3 mitigations)
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Architecture and Design
Protect information stored in cache.
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Architecture and Design
Do not store unnecessarily sensitive information in the cache.
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Architecture and Design
Consider using encryption in the cache.
Source: MITRE CWE-524
95 results · Feed
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Medium 4.8
pdfmake < 0.3.14 Shared Cache Access Policy Bypass
pdfmake before 0.3.14 contains a shared resource caching vulnerability that allows attackers to access cross-document cached resources by exploiting a process-wide virtual file system keyed only by URL without request headers or per-document access enforcemen…
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Medium 6.5
undici vulnerable to cross-user cache disclosure via same-origin redirect
undici is an HTTP client for Node.js. In versions 7.0.0 through 7.30.1 and 8.0.0 through 8.12.3, when the redirect interceptor and a shared response cache are used together, an authenticated request that is redirected to a same-origin target has the final res…
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Medium 4.2
Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information in Elasticsearch Leading to Information Disclosure
Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information (CWE-524) in Elasticsearch can lead to information disclosure and incorrect search results via specially crafted search requests. For some query types, Elasticsearch can share cached query results between users wh…
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Low 3.1
Potential exposure of private data via empty and missing Vary headers
An issue was discovered in Django 6.1 before 6.1.3, 6.0 before 6.0.10, and 5.2 before 5.2.19. The `django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware` and the `django.views.decorators.cache.cache_page()` decorator generate identical cache keys for requests that om…
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High 7.5
CachingWebClient shares user-specific HTTP responses across users via the shared cache tier
In Eclipse Vert.x versions [4.0.0,4.5.35] or [5.0.0,5.2.2], when one `CachingWebClient` is shared across users — the documented pattern of a per-user `WebClientSession` over a shared caching client — a response that is specific to one user but is cacheable an…
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Medium 5.9
WP Fastest Cache <= 1.5.3 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via Cached wp-activate.php Response
The WP Fastest Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.3. The plugin caches the response of Core’s wp-activate.php without honoring its no-store/no-cache headers, the wp-activate-* c…
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Medium 5.3
PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for WooCommerce <= 5.16.5 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via Yearly-Reset Invoice Attachment Cache
The PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 5.16.5 via the 'invoice_number (via document filename)' parameter. This makes it possible for unauthent…
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Medium 4.8CVE-2026-94386 Public exploit
Apache Camel: Camel-OAuth Cross-Scope Token Reuse via an Under-Keyed JVM-Global Client Credentials Token Cache
Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information vulnerability in Apache Camel Oauth component. This issue affects Apache Camel: from 4.19.0 before 4.22.2. OAuthClientCredentialsTokenResolver obtains OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens through the client credentials grant o…
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Low 3.5
Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information in GitLab
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.0 before 19.3.6, 19.4 before 19.4.3, and 19.5 before 19.5.1 that, when a merge request in a public project referenced a confidential issue from a private project, an authenticated u…
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High 7.5
Apache Cocoon: Cross-user cache poisoning
** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** Use of cache containing sensitive information vulnerability in Apache Cocoon. When using the cache on a multi-user application, cached values for one user could be used when serving content for other users. This issue affects A…
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Medium 4.8CVE-2026-85317 Public exploit
Apache Camel: Camel-HTTP OAuth2 Token Confusion via an Under-Keyed JVM-Global Token Cache
Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information vulnerability in Apache Camel HTTP component. This issue affects Apache Camel: from 4.0.0 before 4.18.5, from 4.19.0 before 4.22.1. The OAuth2 client token cache is global to the JVM, and its key omitted several o…
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High 7.4
undici vulnerable to cache poisoning and cross-user disclosure via cross-origin redirects
undici is an HTTP client library for Node.js. In versions 7.0.0 through 7.30.0 and 8.0.0 through 8.12.1, when an originless Agent composes the redirect and cache interceptors in that order with a shared cache store, the cache builds its key from the original …
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Low 3.7
SpeedyCache <= 1.4.2 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via Insecure Cache Configuration via Cache Write Gate Missing comment_author_* Cookie Check
The SpeedyCache – Cache, Optimization, Performance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.2 via the 'comment_author_*, comment_author_email_*' parameter. This makes it possible for unauth…
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Medium 4.3
Contao: Improper access control in the table access voter
Contao is an Open Source CMS. From version 5.7.0 until 5.7.12, TableAccessVoter::hasAccessToModule() in core-bundle/src/Security/Voter/DataContainer/TableAccessVoter.php caches authorization decisions using only $tokenHash, a hash of the user's security token…
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Low 3.1
vLLM: Harmony tool continuations drop `cache_salt` — restoring a cross-tenant prefix-cache membership oracle
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models. Prior to 0.30.0, Harmony tool continuations submitted through "POST /v1/responses" requests rebuild the next-turn engine input without preserving the cache_salt value, placing the continuation…
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Medium 6.3
Next.js: Cache poisoning in Next.js SSG/ISR rendering leads to cross-user content substitution and persistent denial of service
Next.js is a React framework for building full-stack web applications. From 15.0.0 until 15.5.27 and 16.3.8, applications with a root-level catch-all page and statically generated or Incremental Static Regeneration routes can use a shared response cache key t…
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Medium 6.3
Next.js: Cache poisoning of SSG and ISR pages in self-hosted Next.js applications
Next.js is a React framework for building full-stack web applications. From 15.0.0 until 15.5.27 and 16.3.8, self-hosted applications using the Pages Router with statically generated or Incremental Static Regeneration pages can key a response cache entry with…
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Medium 6.3
Next.js: Pending `use cache` fill can leak Draft Mode content into regular responses and persisted pages
Next.js is a React framework for building full-stack web applications. From 16.3.0 until 16.3.8, pending use cache fills for the same key are shared without separating Draft Mode requests from regular requests. An overlapping regular request can receive unaut…
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Medium 6.3
next.js cache leak on warm `use cache` handlers accessing root param
Next.js versions from 16.3.0 to 16.3.7 warm `use cache` handlers using `next/root-params` and can leak their return value to pages with different root params. With Cache Components enabled (cacheComponents: true), a 'use cache' function that calls another 'us…
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Critical 9.1
Token Cache Reuse in mcp-toolbox-sdk-python
A caching flaw in the toolbox-core package of the mcp-toolbox-sdk-python SDK causes the same Google ID token to be cached and reused across different audiences. If an application uses the SDK to authenticate to two or more different audiences within the same …
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High 7.5
http-cache-semantics through 4.2.0 Cross-User Cache Disclosure via max-stale
http-cache-semantics through 4.2.0 fails to properly validate security-zeroed cache entries when processing client max-stale directives, allowing unauthenticated attackers to retrieve cached responses belonging to other users. Attackers can request the same U…
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Medium 6.3
mpp writes Payment-Receipt and Cache-Control before the wrapped application runs, letting a consumer's own Cache-Control expose paid responses to shared caches
Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information in ZenHive mpp allows a shared HTTP cache to store a paid response and serve it to clients that never paid. MPP.Plug.verify_credential in lib/mpp/plug.ex sets payment-receipt and cache-control: private on the conn…
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Medium 4.0
Angular: Information Leak via `HttpTransferCache` Bypass When Using `withRequestsMadeViaParent`
Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages. Prior to 20.3.28, 21.2.20, and 22.1.1, Angular's @angular/common HttpTransferCache can cache an authenticated response when Ser…
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Medium 6.3
ash_authentication_oauth2_server serves tenant-specific OAuth metadata as publicly cacheable without Vary, enabling cross-tenant confusion
Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information vulnerability in ash-project ash_authentication_oauth2_server allows a shared HTTP cache to serve one tenant's OAuth discovery metadata to another tenant's clients. The RFC 8414 and RFC 9728 metadata endpoints in …
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Medium 6.5
undici vulnerable to cross-user cookie disclosure via Set-Cookie caching in shared caches
undici's cache interceptor does not handle the Set-Cookie response header anywhere in its cache path, so it neither refuses to store nor strips that header. In shared cache mode, which is the default, an otherwise cacheable response that carries a Set-Cookie …
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Medium 5.7
Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple versions through 0.38 for Perl mark responses as publicly cacheable
Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple versions through 0.38 for Perl mark responses as publicly cacheable. The _serve_static method always sets the Cache-Control header to "public", with no means of overriding it. This advises proxies that the content may be store…
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Medium 4.8
django CMS: Page cache ignores plugin-declared Vary headers (disclosure & poisoning)
django CMS is a content management system powered by Django. Prior to 5.0.8 and in 5.1.0a1, the django CMS page cache in cms/cache/page.py ignores request headers declared by plugins through get_vary_cache_on(). The _page_cache_key function includes the cache…
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High —
GeoLens's authorization and cache-scope flaws disclose private dataset data and metadata to unauthorized users (fixed in 1.2.4)
GeoLens 1.2.4 fixes a set of vulnerabilities, the most serious of which allow authenticated or anonymous users to obtain data and metadata for datasets they are not authorized to access. ### Impact - **Private record metadata disclosure.** Record contact, key…
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Medium 6.5CVE-2026-59903 Public exploit
Netty: Cache Poisoning and Information Disclosure via CORS Vary Header Overwrite
Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.1.137.Final and 4.2.17.Final, io.netty.handler.codec.http.cors.CorsHandler setVaryHeader replaces application Vary headers such as Authorization or Cookie with Origin, allowing a…
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High 7.5
Nuxt runtime payload cache discloses another user's SSR data across users and to unauthenticated clients
Nuxt is an open-source web development framework for Vue.js. From 4.4.0 until 4.5.1, runtime cache:nuxt:payload entries for /<page>/_payload.json can be returned before route middleware and page guards because import.meta.prerender is not enforced, disclosing…
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High 7.3
Potential information leakage from manager /network/graph API in NeuVector
NeuVector through 5.4.9 is can potentially leak information from manager /network/graph API due to missing authentication and cached data containing sensitive information.
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Medium 5.9
undici vulnerable to cross-user information disclosure via whitespace around equals in Cache-Control directives
undici's cache interceptor mishandles optional whitespace placed around the equals sign of a qualified no-cache or private Cache-Control directive. In undici from 7.0.0 up to before 7.29.0 and from 8.0.0 up to before 8.9.0, the parser either drops the directi…
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Medium 6.0
Next.js: Response Body Cache Confusion for Requests Containing Bodies
Next.js is a React framework for building full-stack web applications. In versions 12.0.0 through 15.5.20 and 16.0.0 through 16.2.10, a server-side fetch with a request body may return a cached response body from a different request to the same URL but differ…
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High 7.5
Joomla Extension - regularlabs.com - Date-sensitive query-cache leakage in Articles Anywhere and Users Anywhere extension
Joomla Extension - regularlabs.com - Date-sensitive query-cache leakage in Articles Anywhere and Users Anywhere extension - Date-sensitive query cache keys did not retain a bounded time component. Cached results could remain active across future publication o…
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High 7.5
Joomla Extension - regularlabs.com - disclosure of restricted content via search index in various Regular Labs extensions
Joomla Extension - regularlabs.com - disclosure of restricted content via search index in various Regular Labs extensions - Smart Search indexing could render generated content using the indexing administrator’s identity instead of a public guest. Restricted …
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High 8.6
Directus: Authorization-dependent response served from unsegmented cache key
Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 12.0.0, when response caching is enabled, the cache-key derivation in api/src/utils/get-cache-key.ts includes version, path, query, and accountability.user but omits aut…
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Low 1.7
PAN-OS: Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Management Web Interface
An information disclosure vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software enables an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to obtain web session tokens. This requires a legitimate user to first click on a malicious …
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Low 3.5
Open WebUI: Cross-user model-list exposure via static cache key in get_all_models (aiocache key= vs key_builder= misuse)
Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.6.27 before 0.10.0, get_all_models handlers in routers/openai.py and routers/ollama.py passed a lambda to aiocache key instead of key_builder, causing permission-filt…
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Medium 4.2
Potential exposure of private data via cached Set-Cookie response
An issue was discovered in Django 6.0 before 6.0.7 and 5.2 before 5.2.16. `UpdateCacheMiddleware` and the `cache_page()` decorator cache responses that vary on cookies when the incoming request carries unrelated cookies, which allows remote attackers to read …
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Medium 5.9
API Platform Core: Cross-user attribute leak in JSON:API and HAL item normalizers due to missing isCacheKeySafe gate
API Platform Core is a system to create hypermedia-driven REST and GraphQL APIs. In versions from 2.6.0 prior to 4.1.29, 4.2.26, and 4.3.12, a missing isCacheKeySafe gate in the JSON:API and HAL item normalizers causes a cross-user attribute leak. #[ApiProper…