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CWE-538: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory

Base Draft

The product places sensitive information into files or directories that are accessible to actors who are allowed to have access to the files, but not to the sensitive information.

How to prevent it (1 mitigation)
  1. Architecture and Design, Operation, System Configuration

    Do not expose file and directory information to the user.

Source: MITRE CWE-538

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  • High 8.2

    Joomla Extension - jreviews.com - Secret configs cached in a web-accessible in JReviews 1.0.0-5.12.0, 6.0.0-6.6.9

    Joomla Extension - jreviews.com - Secret configs cached in a web-accessible in JReviews 1.0.0-5.12.0, 6.0.0-6.6.9 - JReviews caches its full settings table, including the Joomla global configuration secret (copied into cms_secret) and third-party API keys and…

  • High 7.5

    WordPress Doofinder for WooCommerce plugin <= 2.17.2 - Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability

    Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory vulnerability in Doofinder Doofinder for WooCommerce doofinder-for-woocommerce allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data.This issue affects Doofinder for WooCommerce: from n/a throu…

  • High 7.5

    Vllm-orchestrator-gateway: vllm-orchestrator-gateway: authorization header and full chat payloads logged at hard-coded debug default

    A flaw was found in the vllm-orchestrator-gateway component. The system's production binary logs all incoming authorization headers and full chat payloads, which may contain personally identifiable information (PII) and secrets, to persistent logs. This sensi…

  • High 8.7

    Fission runtime pods automount the fission-fetcher service-account token into the user function container, granting function code namespace-wide secret / configmap read

    Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework that simplifies the deployment of functions and applications on Kubernetes. Prior to version 1.23.0, Fission runtime pods were created with ServiceAccountName: fission-fetcher, and the fission-…

  • High 8.8

    Apache Airflow: JWT Token Exposure in KubernetesExecutor Command-Line Arguments

    A bug in Apache Airflow's KubernetesExecutor caused JWT tokens used by worker pods to authenticate against the Execution API to be passed to the worker container as command-line arguments visible in the pod spec. An authenticated UI/API user with Kubernetes r…

  • High 8.7

    Apache Airflow CNCF Kubernetes provider: JWT Token Exposure in KubernetesExecutor Command-Line Arguments

    JWT tokens that were used by workers in Kubernetes Executors have been exposed to users who had read only access to Kuberentes Pods. This could allow users with just read-only access to perform actions that were only available to running tasks via Task SDK an…

  • High 7.5

    WordPress Plugin Backup Migration 1.2.8 Unauthenticated Database Backup Download

    WordPress Plugin Backup Migration 1.2.8 contains an information disclosure vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to download complete database backups by accessing predictable file paths. Attackers can enumerate backup directories through config…

  • High 7.5

    Across DR-810 ROM-0 Unauthenticated File Disclosure

    Across DR-810 contains an unauthenticated file disclosure vulnerability that allows remote attackers to download the rom-0 backup file containing sensitive information by sending a simple GET request. Attackers can access the rom-0 endpoint without authentica…

  • High 8.8

    A vulnerability allowing local privilege escalation on Windows-based Veeam Backup & Replication servers.

  • High 7.5

    ASTPP 4.0.1 VoIP Billing - Database Backup Download

    ASTPP 4.0.1 contains an information disclosure vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to download database backup files by predicting backup filename patterns. Attackers can generate a list of 6-digit PIN combinations and fuzz the backup download…

  • High 8.7

    Tandoor Recipes module allows SQLite database to be externally accessible with the default settings

    Tandoor Recipes is a recipe manager than can be installed with the Nix package manager. Starting in version 23.05 and prior to version 26.05, when using the default configuration of Tandoor Recipes, specifically using SQLite and default `MEDIA_ROOT`, the full…

  • High 7.3

    Storybook manager bundle may expose environment variables during build

    Storybook is a frontend workshop for building user interface components and pages in isolation. A vulnerability present starting in versions 7.0.0 and prior to versions 7.6.21, 8.6.15, 9.1.17, and 10.1.10 relates to Storybook’s handling of environment variabl…

  • High 7.5

    Qlik Sense Enterprise v14.212.13 was discovered to contain an information leak via the /dev-hub/ directory.

  • High 8.7

    TG8 Firewall Unauthenticated User Password Disclosure

    TG8 Firewall exposes a directory such as /data/ over HTTP without authentication. This directory stores credential files for previously logged-in users. A remote unauthenticated attacker can enumerate and download files within the directory to obtain valid ac…

  • High 8.7

    Ubee EVW3226 Unauthenticated Backup File Disclosure

    Ubee EVW3226 cable modem/routers firmware versions up to and including 1.0.20 store configuration backup files in the web root after they are generated for download. These backup files remain accessible without authentication until the next reboot. A remote a…

  • High 7.1
    CVE-2025-46820 Public exploit

    phpgt/Dom exposes the GITHUB_TOKEN in Dom workflow run artifact

    phpgt/Dom provides access to modern DOM APIs. Versions of phpgt/Dom prior to 4.1.8 expose the GITHUB_TOKEN in the Dom workflow run artifact. The ci.yml workflow file uses actions/upload-artifact@v4 to upload the build artifact. This artifact is a zip of the c…

  • High 8.8

    Advanced File Manager Shortcodes <= 2.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Directory Traversal

    The Advanced File Manager Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 2.4. This makes it possible for attackers with contributor access or higher to read the contents of arbitrary files on the ser…

  • High 7.3

    An issue was discovered in the installer in Samsung Portable SSD for T5 1.6.10 on Windows. Because it is possible to ta…

  • High 7.6

    A vulnerability has been identified in SINEMA Remote Connect Client (All versions < V3.1 SP1). The product places sensi…

  • High 8.8

    Dell Data Protection Search 19.2.0 and above contain an exposed password opportunity in plain text when using LdapSetti…

  • High 7.5

    Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory in BVRP Software SLmail

    An information exposure vulnerability has been found, the exploitation of which could allow a remote user to retrieve sensitive information stored on the server such as credential files, configuration files, application files, etc., simply by appending any of…

  • High 8.9

    lte-pic32-writer's sendto.txt may disclose URL and the API key

    lte-pic32-writer is a writer for PIC32 devices. In versions 0.0.1 and prior, those who use `sendto.txt` are vulnerable to attackers who known the IMEI reading the sendto.txt. The sendto.txt file can contain the SNS(such as slack and zulip) URL and API key. As…

  • High 7.8

    Cri-o: /etc/passwd tampering privesc

    A vulnerability was found in cri-o. This issue allows the addition of arbitrary lines into /etc/passwd by use of a specially crafted environment variable.

  • High 8.9

    GitOps Run allows for Kubernetes workload injection

    Weave GitOps is a simple open source developer platform for people who want cloud native applications, without needing Kubernetes expertise. A vulnerability in GitOps run could allow a local user or process to alter a Kubernetes cluster's resources. GitOps ru…

  • High 7.7

    Post-Auth External Entity Expansion (XXE)

    OneDev is an all-in-one devops platform. In OneDev before version 4.0.3, there is a critical vulnerability which may lead to arbitrary file read. When BuildSpec is provided in XML format, the spec is processed by XmlBuildSpecMigrator.migrate(buildSpecString);…

  • High 7.5

    Advantech WebAccess File and Directory Information Exposure

    The BWOCXRUN.BwocxrunCtrl.1 control contains a method named “OpenUrlToBuffer.” This method takes a URL as a parameter and returns its contents to the caller in JavaScript. The URLs are accessed in the security context of the current browser session. The contr…