CWE-522
Insufficiently Protected Credentials
Description
The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.
Hierarchy (View 1000)
Related attack patterns (CAPEC)
CAPEC-102 · CAPEC-474 · CAPEC-50 · CAPEC-509 · CAPEC-551 · CAPEC-555 · CAPEC-560 · CAPEC-561 · CAPEC-600 · CAPEC-644 · CAPEC-645 · CAPEC-652 · CAPEC-653
CVEs mapped to this weakness (1,463)
page 54 of 74| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2018-12383 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Oct 18, 2018 | If a user saved passwords before Firefox 58 and then later set a master password, an unencrypted copy of these passwords is still accessible. This is because the older stored password file was not deleted when the data was copied to a new format starting in Firefox 58. The new… | ||
| CVE-2018-11752 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Oct 2, 2018 | Previous releases of the Puppet cisco_ios module output SSH session debug information including login credentials to a world readable file on every run. These issues have been resolved in the 0.4.0 release. | ||
| CVE-2017-1207 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Jul 5, 2017 | IBM WebSphere Message Broker stores user credentials in plain in clear text which can be read by a local user. IBM X-Force ID: 123777. | ||
| CVE-2017-6694 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Jun 13, 2017 | A vulnerability in the Virtual Network Function Manager's (VNFM) logging function of Cisco Ultra Services Platform could allow an authenticated, local attacker to view sensitive data (cleartext credentials) on an affected system. More Information: CSCvd29355. Known Affected… | ||
| CVE-2015-5013 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Feb 8, 2017 | The IBM Security Access Manager appliance includes configuration files that contain obfuscated plaintext-passwords which authenticated users can access. | ||
| CVE-2014-4806 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Aug 29, 2014 | The installation process in IBM Security AppScan Enterprise 8.x before 8.6.0.2 iFix 003, 8.7.x before 8.7.0.1 iFix 003, 8.8.x before 8.8.0.1 iFix 002, and 9.0.x before 9.0.0.1 iFix 001 on Linux places a cleartext password in a temporary file, which allows local users to obtain… | ||
| CVE-2026-21766 | Med | 0.35 | 5.4 | 0.00 | Aug 5, 2026 | The default login portlet in HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose insufficiently protects credentials. Under certain very specific use cases and specific configurations, sensitive information may be written to web server logs. This only affects applications… | ||
| CVE-2026-48022 | Med | 0.35 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Jul 17, 2026 | @hapi/wreck is an HTTP client utility. Prior to 18.1.2, Wreck strips credential headers including Authorization, Cookie, and Proxy-Authorization before following a cross-origin redirect, but the origin check compares hostnames only and ignores scheme and port, so credentials are… | ||
| CVE-2026-54171 | Med | 0.35 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Jul 17, 2026 | Excon is usable, fast, simple HTTP 1.1 for Ruby. Prior to 1.5.0, Excon's RedirectFollower middleware failed to strip additional sensitive headers when following redirects and did not provide a custom list of headers to strip. This could cause inadvertent leakage of sensitive… | ||
| CVE-2026-55180 | Med | 0.35 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Jun 25, 2026 | pnpm is a package manager. Prior to 10.34.2 and 11.5.3, pnpm and pacquet expanded ${ENV_VAR} placeholders from repository-controlled .npmrc and pnpm-workspace.yaml into registry request destinations and registry credentials. A malicious repository could cause dependency… | ||
| CVE-2026-50017 | Med | 0.35 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Jun 25, 2026 | pnpm is a package manager. Prior to 10.34.0 and 11.4.0, pnpm can send user-level unscoped npm authentication credentials to a registry chosen by a repository-local .npmrc file. In the reproduced case, the user's npm config contains a default registry and an unscoped _authToken.… | ||
| CVE-2026-42951 | Med | 0.35 | 5.4 | 0.00 | May 29, 2026 | An authenticated user can download a backup of the Danelec MacGregor Voyage Data Recorder device which includes account data and password hashes. | ||
| CVE-2026-6345 | Med | 0.35 | 6.5 | 0.00 | May 18, 2026 | Mattermost versions 11.5.x <= 11.5.1, 10.11.x <= 10.11.13, 11.4.x <= 11.4.3 fail prevent disclosure of created user password which allows a malicious attacker to impersonate a user via the use of some of those passwords.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00614 | ||
| CVE-2026-8368 | Med | 0.35 | 6.5 | 0.00 | May 12, 2026 | LWP::UserAgent versions before 6.83 for Perl leak Authorization and Proxy-Authorization headers on cross-origin redirects. On a 3xx response, the redirect handler strips only Host and Cookie before issuing the follow-up request. Caller-supplied Authorization and… | ||
| CVE-2026-6446 | Med | 0.35 | 5.4 | 0.00 | May 2, 2026 | The My Social Feeds – Social Feeds Embedder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to and including 1.0.4 via the 'ttp_get_accounts' AJAX action. This is due to the complete absence of authorization checks (no capability… | ||
| CVE-2026-28909 | Med | 0.35 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Apr 30, 2026 | Users who connect to malicious registries with hostnames matching the bypass patterns will have their registry credentials exposed in plaintext. This issue is fixed in container version 0.12.3. | ||
| CVE-2026-25631 | Med | 0.35 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Feb 6, 2026 | n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to 1.121.0, there is a vulnerability in the HTTP Request node's credential domain validation allowed an authenticated attacker to send requests with credentials to unintended domains, potentially leading to credential… | ||
| CVE-2026-24845 | Med | 0.35 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Jan 29, 2026 | malcontent discovers supply-chain compromises through. context, differential analysis, and YARA. Starting in version 0.10.0 and prior to version 1.20.3, malcontent could be made to expose Docker registry credentials if it scanned a specially crafted OCI image reference.… | ||
| CVE-2025-62157 | Med | 0.35 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Oct 14, 2025 | Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. Argo Workflows versions prior to 3.6.12 and versions 3.7.0 through 3.7.2 expose artifact repository credentials in plaintext in workflow-controller pod logs. An… | ||
| CVE-2025-37728 | Med | 0.35 | 5.4 | 0.00 | Oct 7, 2025 | Insufficiently Protected Credentials in the Crowdstrike connector can lead to Crowdstrike credentials being leaked. A malicious user can access cached credentials from a Crowdstrike connector in another space by creating and running a Crowdstrike connector in a space to which… |
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
If a user saved passwords before Firefox 58 and then later set a master password, an unencrypted copy of these passwords is still accessible. This is because the older stored password file was not deleted when the data was copied to a new format starting in Firefox 58. The new…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
Previous releases of the Puppet cisco_ios module output SSH session debug information including login credentials to a world readable file on every run. These issues have been resolved in the 0.4.0 release.
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
IBM WebSphere Message Broker stores user credentials in plain in clear text which can be read by a local user. IBM X-Force ID: 123777.
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
A vulnerability in the Virtual Network Function Manager's (VNFM) logging function of Cisco Ultra Services Platform could allow an authenticated, local attacker to view sensitive data (cleartext credentials) on an affected system. More Information: CSCvd29355. Known Affected…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
The IBM Security Access Manager appliance includes configuration files that contain obfuscated plaintext-passwords which authenticated users can access.
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
The installation process in IBM Security AppScan Enterprise 8.x before 8.6.0.2 iFix 003, 8.7.x before 8.7.0.1 iFix 003, 8.8.x before 8.8.0.1 iFix 002, and 9.0.x before 9.0.0.1 iFix 001 on Linux places a cleartext password in a temporary file, which allows local users to obtain…
- risk 0.35cvss 5.4epss 0.00
The default login portlet in HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose insufficiently protects credentials. Under certain very specific use cases and specific configurations, sensitive information may be written to web server logs. This only affects applications…
- risk 0.35cvss 6.5epss 0.00
@hapi/wreck is an HTTP client utility. Prior to 18.1.2, Wreck strips credential headers including Authorization, Cookie, and Proxy-Authorization before following a cross-origin redirect, but the origin check compares hostnames only and ignores scheme and port, so credentials are…
- risk 0.35cvss 6.5epss 0.00
Excon is usable, fast, simple HTTP 1.1 for Ruby. Prior to 1.5.0, Excon's RedirectFollower middleware failed to strip additional sensitive headers when following redirects and did not provide a custom list of headers to strip. This could cause inadvertent leakage of sensitive…
- risk 0.35cvss 6.5epss 0.00
pnpm is a package manager. Prior to 10.34.2 and 11.5.3, pnpm and pacquet expanded ${ENV_VAR} placeholders from repository-controlled .npmrc and pnpm-workspace.yaml into registry request destinations and registry credentials. A malicious repository could cause dependency…
- risk 0.35cvss 6.5epss 0.00
pnpm is a package manager. Prior to 10.34.0 and 11.4.0, pnpm can send user-level unscoped npm authentication credentials to a registry chosen by a repository-local .npmrc file. In the reproduced case, the user's npm config contains a default registry and an unscoped _authToken.…
- risk 0.35cvss 5.4epss 0.00
An authenticated user can download a backup of the Danelec MacGregor Voyage Data Recorder device which includes account data and password hashes.
- risk 0.35cvss 6.5epss 0.00
Mattermost versions 11.5.x <= 11.5.1, 10.11.x <= 10.11.13, 11.4.x <= 11.4.3 fail prevent disclosure of created user password which allows a malicious attacker to impersonate a user via the use of some of those passwords.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00614
- risk 0.35cvss 6.5epss 0.00
LWP::UserAgent versions before 6.83 for Perl leak Authorization and Proxy-Authorization headers on cross-origin redirects. On a 3xx response, the redirect handler strips only Host and Cookie before issuing the follow-up request. Caller-supplied Authorization and…
- risk 0.35cvss 5.4epss 0.00
The My Social Feeds – Social Feeds Embedder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to and including 1.0.4 via the 'ttp_get_accounts' AJAX action. This is due to the complete absence of authorization checks (no capability…
- risk 0.35cvss 6.5epss 0.00
Users who connect to malicious registries with hostnames matching the bypass patterns will have their registry credentials exposed in plaintext. This issue is fixed in container version 0.12.3.
- risk 0.35cvss 6.5epss 0.00
n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to 1.121.0, there is a vulnerability in the HTTP Request node's credential domain validation allowed an authenticated attacker to send requests with credentials to unintended domains, potentially leading to credential…
- risk 0.35cvss 6.5epss 0.00
malcontent discovers supply-chain compromises through. context, differential analysis, and YARA. Starting in version 0.10.0 and prior to version 1.20.3, malcontent could be made to expose Docker registry credentials if it scanned a specially crafted OCI image reference.…
- risk 0.35cvss 6.5epss 0.00
Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. Argo Workflows versions prior to 3.6.12 and versions 3.7.0 through 3.7.2 expose artifact repository credentials in plaintext in workflow-controller pod logs. An…
- risk 0.35cvss 5.4epss 0.00
Insufficiently Protected Credentials in the Crowdstrike connector can lead to Crowdstrike credentials being leaked. A malicious user can access cached credentials from a Crowdstrike connector in another space by creating and running a Crowdstrike connector in a space to which…