CWE-214
Invocation of Process Using Visible Sensitive Information
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Description
A process is invoked with sensitive command-line arguments, environment variables, or other elements that can be seen by other processes on the operating system.
Many operating systems allow a user to list information about processes that are owned by other users. Other users could see information such as command line arguments or environment variable settings. When this data contains sensitive information such as credentials, it might allow other users to launch an attack against the product or related resources.
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CVEs mapped to this weakness (4)
| CVE | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
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| CVE-2025-32987 | Med | 0.39 | 6.0 | 0.00 | Apr 15, 2025 | Arctera eDiscovery Platform before 10.3.2, when Enterprise Vault Collection Module is used, places a cleartext password on a command line in EVSearcher. | |
| CVE-2026-40159 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Apr 10, 2026 | PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to 4.5.128, PraisonAI’s MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration allows spawning background servers via stdio using user-supplied command strings (e.g., MCP("npx -y @smithery/cli ...")). These commands are executed through Python’s subprocess module. By default, the implementation forwards the entire parent process environment to the spawned subprocess. As a result, any MCP command executed in this manner inherits all environment variables from the host process, including sensitive data such as API keys, authentication tokens, and database credentials. This behavior introduces a security risk when untrusted or third-party commands are used. In common scenarios where MCP tools are invoked via package runners such as npx -y, arbitrary code from external or potentially compromised packages may execute with access to these inherited environment variables. This creates a risk of unintended credential exposure and enables potential supply chain attacks through silent exfiltration of secrets. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.5.128. | |
| CVE-2024-39314 | Med | 0.24 | 4.7 | 0.00 | Jul 1, 2024 | toy-blog is a headless content management system implementation. Starting in version 0.4.3 and prior to version 0.5.0, the administrative password was leaked through the command line parameter. The problem was patched in version 0.5.0. As a workaround, pass `--read-bearer-token-from-stdin` to the launch arguments and feed the token from the standard input in version 0.4.14 or later. Earlier versions do not have this workaround. | |
| CVE-2026-41357 | Low | 0.14 | 3.3 | 0.00 | Apr 23, 2026 | OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 contains an environment variable leakage vulnerability in SSH-based sandbox backends that pass unsanitized process.env to child processes. Attackers can exploit this by leveraging non-default SSH environment forwarding configurations to leak sensitive environment variables from parent processes to SSH child processes. |