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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-54704 EUVD-2026-41151GHSA-rwqx-fvqh-6wm4

OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation: JDBC Auto-Instrumentation Logging Clear-Text Passwords

Published Jul 1, 2026 · Updated Jul 2, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation provides OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation and instrumentation libraries for Java. In versions prior to 2.28.0, the JDBC auto-instrumentation may fail to sanitize passwords in SQL CONNECT statements when the password is double-quoted. As a result, clear-text database passwords can be added to trace span attributes and exported to observability backends. This issue has been fixed in version 2.28.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
open-telemetry opentelemetry-java-instrumentation < 2.28.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven io.opentelemetry.javaagent:opentelemetry-javaagent < 2.28.0-alpha 2.28.0-alpha GHSA-rwqx-fvqh-6wm4

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