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CWE-524: Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information

Base Incomplete

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)
  1. Architecture and Design

    Protect information stored in cache.

  2. Architecture and Design

    Do not store unnecessarily sensitive information in the cache.

  3. Architecture and Design

    Consider using encryption in the cache.

Source: MITRE CWE-524

98 results · Feed

  • 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…

  • 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 …

  • 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…

  • Medium 5.3

    Information about ECS zero scoped answers might leak to clients that use a specific ECS

    ECS zero scoped answers are stored in the packet cache while they should not. This impacts only configurations that have ECS enabled;

  • Critical 9.6

    Ghost: Cache-poisoning XSS in Ghost frontend via x-ghost-preview header

    Ghost is a Node.js content management system. From until 6.37.0, when Ghost is behind a shared caching layer that results in cached content being shared between different visitors, an unauthenticated user could send an x-ghost-preview header that altered the …

  • High 7.5

    Insecure Public Caching on REST API Endpoints in Tenable Identity Exposure

    Tenable Identity Exposure contains multiple unauthenticated API endpoints under /w/api/* that expose sensitive application configuration data including cleartext LDAP credentials, SAML configuration, user accounts, and directory settings to unauthenticated re…

  • Medium 5.7

    Angular: Request Credential & Cache Policy Stripping in Angular Service Worker

    Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages. Prior to 22.0.0-rc.2, 21.2.15, 20.3.22, and 19.2.23, an issue in the @angular/service-worker package compromises the integrity …

  • Medium 5.7

    Angular Service Worker Policy-Bypass & Credential-Stripping Vulnerabilities

    Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages. Prior to 22.0.0-rc.2, 21.2.15 20.3.22, and 19.2.23, an issue in the @angular/service-worker package compromises the integrity o…

  • High 8.2

    Angular: Information Leak via Default Caching of Credentialed Requests in HttpTransferCache

    Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages. Prior to 22.0.0-rc.2, 21.2.15, 20.3.22, and 19.2.23, a vulnerability was discovered in @angular/common when Server-Side Renderi…

  • Medium 5.9

    undici vulnerable to cross-user information disclosure via shared cache whitespace bypass

    Impact: Undici's cache interceptor incorrectly classifies some responses as cacheable when the upstream Cache-Control header uses whitespace-padded qualified private or no-cache field names such as private=" authorization" or no-cache="\tauthorization". The p…

  • Medium 6.0

    Improper Search Cache Isolation for Scoped Search API Keys in Typesense

    Typesense is a fast, typo-tolerant search engine. Prior to versions 29.1 and 30.2, there is a cache isolation issue affecting search requests that use both server-side search result caching and Scoped Search API Keys. Under specific request ordering, cached s…

  • Medium 5.9

    Spring Framework Information Disclosure via Static Resource Cache in Spring MVC and WebFlux

    Spring MVC and WebFlux applications are vulnerable to Information Disclosure attacks when resolving static resources. Affected versions: Spring Framework 7.0.0 through 7.0.7; 6.2.0 through 6.2.18; 6.1.0 through 6.1.27; 5.3.0 through 5.3.48.

  • High 7.0

    drm/xe/uapi: Reject coh_none PAT index for CPU cached memory in madvise

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/uapi: Reject coh_none PAT index for CPU cached memory in madvise Add validation in xe_vm_madvise_ioctl() to reject PAT indices with XE_COH_NONE coherency mode when applied to CPU cache…

  • Low 3.1

    Potential exposure of private data via missing Vary: Authorization in UpdateCacheMiddleware

    An issue was discovered in Django 5.2 before 5.2.15 and 6.0 before 6.0.6. `django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware` in Django does not add `Authorization` to the `Vary` response header for requests bearing that header without `Cache-Control: public`, wh…

  • High 7.5

    Joomla! Core - [20260517] - Incorrect Cache Key Construction for InputFilter objects

    The InputFilter::getInstance() method omitted a security sensitive parameter from the instance cache key.

  • Medium 5.3

    Discourse: Cached outdated summaries can leak removed content

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. In versions prior to 2026.1.4, 2026.3.1, 2026.4.1 and 2026.5.0-latest.1, outdated cached AI summaries can leak removed content to anonymous and unprivileged users who cannot regenerate summaries. This issue has…

  • Medium 5.3

    Hono: Cache Middleware ignores Vary: Authorization / Vary: Cookie leading to cross-user cache leakage

    Hono is a Web application framework that provides support for any JavaScript runtime. Prior to 4.12.18, Cache Middleware does not skip caching for responses that declare per-user variance via Vary: Authorization or Vary: Cookie. As a result, a response cached…

  • Medium 4.3

    Potential exposure of private data due to incorrect handling of Vary: * in UpdateCacheMiddleware

    An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.5 and 5.2 before 5.2.14. `django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware` erroneously caches requests where the `Vary` header contained an asterisk (`'*'`). This can lead to private data being stored and served. Earlie…

  • Medium 6.5

    github.com/gofiber/fiber/v3 cache middleware can mix responses across query parameters

    Fiber is a web framework for Go. In github.com/gofiber/fiber/v3 versions through 3.1.0, the default key generator in the cache middleware uses only the request path and does not include the query string. As a result, requests for the same path with different …

  • Low 3.1

    Static resource cache poisoning in Spring MVC and WebFlux

    Spring MVC and WebFlux applications are vulnerable to cache poisoning when resolving static resources. More precisely, an application can be vulnerable when all the following are true: * the application is using Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux * the application …

  • High 7.5

    Distribution has stale blob access resurrection via repo-scoped redis descriptor cache invalidation

    Distribution is a toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content. Prior to 3.1.0, distribution can restore read access in repo a after an explicit delete when storage.cache.blobdescriptor: redis and storage.delete.enabled: true are both enabled. …

  • Medium 5.7

    IBM Planning Analytics Information Disclosure

    IBM Planning Analytics Local 2.1.0 through 2.1.17 could allow an attacker to trick the caching mechanism into storing and serving sensitive, user-specific responses as publicly cacheable resources.

  • Low 2.3

    Flask session does not add `Vary: Cookie` header when accessed in some ways

    Flask is a web server gateway interface (WSGI) web application framework. In versions 3.1.2 and below, when the session object is accessed, Flask should set the Vary: Cookie header., resulting in a Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information vulnerability. …

  • Medium 6.5

    Mastodon's signature-dependent ActivityPub collection responses cached under signature-independent keys (Web Cache Poisoning via `Rails.cache`)

    Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to versions 4.3.19, 4.4.13, 4.5.6, Mastodon is vulnerable to web cache poisoning via `Rails.cache. When AUTHORIZED_FETCH is enabled, the ActivityPub endpoints for pinned posts a…

  • Medium 5.3

    Hono cache middleware ignores "Cache-Control: private" leading to Web Cache Deception

    Hono is a Web application framework that provides support for any JavaScript runtime. Prior to version 4.11.7, Cache Middleware contains an information disclosure vulnerability caused by improper handling of HTTP cache control directives. The middleware does …

  • Low 3.1

    Umbraco.Forms CDN may cache sensitive form uploads when processed by ImageSharp

    ### Impact Protected files uploaded through Umbraco Forms may be served to unauthenticated users when a CDN or caching layer is present and ImageSharp processes the request. ImageSharp sets aggressive cache headers by default, which can cause intermediary cac…

  • Medium 5.5
    CVE-2025-69581 Public exploit

    An issue was discovered in Chamillo LMS 1.11.2. The Social Network /personal_data endpoint exposes full sensitive user …

  • Medium 6.0

    axios-cache-interceptor Vulnerable to Cache Poisoning via Ignored HTTP Vary Header

    Axios Cache Interceptor is a cache interceptor for axios. Prior to version 1.11.1, when a server calls an upstream service using different auth tokens, axios-cache-interceptor returns incorrect cached responses, leading to authorization bypass. The cache key …

  • Low 2.4

    The issue was addressed with improved handling of caches. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7.2, macOS Sonoma 14.…

  • Low 3.3

    Android App "Brother iPrint&Scan" versions 6.13.7 and earlier improperly uses an external cache directory. If exploited…

  • Low 3.3
    CVE-2025-65681 Public exploit

    Overhang Tutor Discloses Sensitive Information due to Improper Cache-Control

    An issue was discovered in Overhang.IO (tutor-open-edx) (overhangio/tutor) 20.0.2 allowing local unauthorized attackers to gain access to sensitive information due to the absence of proper cache-control HTTP headers and client-side session checks.

  • High 8.0

    authkit-nextjs may let session cookies be cached in CDNs

    The AuthKit library for Next.js provides convenient helpers for authentication and session management using WorkOS & AuthKit with Next.js. In authkit-nextjs version 2.11.0 and below, authenticated responses do not defensively apply anti-caching headers. In en…

  • Medium 6.3

    Discourse is missing Cache-Control response header on error responses

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Version before 3.6.2 and 3.6.0.beta2, default Cache-Control response header with value no-store, no-cache was missing from error responses. This may caused unintended caching of those responses by proxies poten…

  • Medium 5.9

    Libsoup: improper handling of http vary header in libsoup caching

    A flaw was found in libsoup’s caching mechanism, SoupCache, where the HTTP Vary header is ignored when evaluating cached responses. This header ensures that responses vary appropriately based on request headers such as language or authentication. Without this…

  • Medium 6.2

    Next.js Affected by Cache Key Confusion for Image Optimization API Routes

    Next.js is a React framework for building full-stack web applications. In versions before 14.2.31 and from 15.0.0 to before 15.4.5, Next.js Image Optimization API routes are affected by cache key confusion. When images returned from API routes vary based on r…

  • Medium 5.5

    Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS) Leakage of Sensitive Data via the Cache

    A binary in the BoKS Server Agent component of Fortra's Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS) on versions 7.2.0 (up to 7.2.0.17), 8.1.0 (up to 8.1.0.22), 8.1.1 (up to 8.1.1.7), 9.0.0 (up to 9.0.0.1) and also legacy tar installs of BoKS 7.2 without hotfix #047…

  • Medium 5.1

    Prisma Access Browser: Inappropriate implementation in Cache

    An insufficient implementation of cache vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Access Browser enables users to bypass certain data control policies.

  • Low 3.2

    HCL Domino Volt and Domino Leap are affected by missing "no cache" headers

    Missing "no cache" headers in HCL Leap permits sensitive data to be cached.

  • Low 3.2

    HCL Leap is affected by missing "no cache" headers

    Missing "no cache" headers in HCL Leap permits user directory information to be cached.

  • Low 3.2

    HCL Leap is affected by missing "no cache" headers

    Missing "no cache" headers in HCL Leap permits sensitive data to be cached.