Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-256 Plaintext Storage of a Password

Description

The product stores a password in plaintext within resources such as memory or files.

Associated Reviewed Advisories

Vulnerabilities classified under CWE-256 ordered by modification date.

25 reviewed records
Advisory ID NVD ID Severity PURLs Summary Last Modified
GHSA-j4ph-wp3c-c37w CVE-2026-57302 MODERATE

Jenkins FitNesse Plugin stores passwords unencrypted

2026-09-25
GHSA-wg65-39gg-5wfj CVE-2026-42151 HIGH

Prometheus Azure AD remote write OAuth client secret exposed via config API

2026-09-09
GHSA-4j9m-h44m-2hv8 CVE-2026-50268 LOW

Steeltoe: OAEP setting silently selects PKCS#1 v1.5 padding

2026-07-02
GHSA-q437-g7fv-2jvv CVE-2026-55164 MODERATE

Lemur user-update path stores plaintext passwords

2026-06-25
GHSA-r3cw-c95m-wfh9 CVE-2026-46488 CRITICAL

motionEye: Authentication possible via password hash

2026-06-22
GHSA-5jjf-wcvf-923w CVE-2026-6597 LOW

Langflow has an Information Leak through Incomplete API Key Redaction

2026-04-24
GHSA-h3m5-p59h-x88p - MODERATE

openssl-encrypt has visible password in process list via --password CLI argument

2026-03-31
GHSA-v722-jcv5-w7mc CVE-2026-33216 HIGH

NATS has MQTT plaintext password disclosure

2026-03-27
GHSA-mpp2-x7wv-38hv CVE-2026-28360 LOW

NocoDB has Plaintext Storage of Shared View Passwords

2026-03-02
GHSA-23j7-px3w-jwp2 CVE-2025-53677 MODERATE

Jenkins Xooa Plugin vulnerability does not mask its Xooa Deployment Token

2025-11-05
GHSA-2g8w-9933-36vr CVE-2025-53675 MODERATE

Jenkins Warrior Framework Plugin vulnerability exposes unencrypted passwords to certain authenticated users

2025-11-05
GHSA-vx57-hphr-3mr9 CVE-2025-53674 MODERATE

Jenkins Sensedia API Platform Plugin vulnerability exposes unencrypted tokens

2025-11-05
GHSA-8gp3-m447-gw2v CVE-2025-53669 MODERATE

Jenkins VAddy Plugin vulnerability exposes plaintext keys on its job configuration form

2025-11-05
GHSA-4v4v-92cx-x4f4 CVE-2025-53671 MODERATE

Jenkins Nouvola DiveCloud Plugin vulnerability does not mask keys on its job configuration form

2025-11-05
GHSA-jxwj-qccf-4896 CVE-2025-53662 MODERATE

Jenkins IFTTT Build Notifier Plugin vulnerability exposes IFTTT Maker Channel Keys

2025-11-05
GHSA-q8p4-vw42-66gh CVE-2025-53664 MODERATE

Jenkins Apica Loadtest Plugin vulnerability exposes authentication tokens

2025-11-05
GHSA-962q-84v8-hxhj CVE-2025-53660 MODERATE

Jenkins QMetry Test Management Plugin vulnerability exposes API keys

2025-11-05
GHSA-28j3-hphh-cjr8 CVE-2025-53665 MODERATE

Jenkins Apica Loadtest Plugin vulnerability exposes authentication tokens

2025-11-05
GHSA-884f-p57j-f258 CVE-2025-53656 MODERATE

Jenkins ReadyAPI Functional Testing Plugin vulnerability stores unencrypted authentication credentials

2025-11-05
GHSA-26x3-7jw5-7mg4 CVE-2025-53655 MODERATE

Jenkins Statistics Gatherer Plugin does not mask AWS Secret Key

2025-11-05
GHSA-wcjj-qm5v-j4pc CVE-2022-45384 MODERATE

Jenkins Reverse Proxy Auth Plugin vulnerable due to plaintext storage of passwords

2025-04-30
GHSA-qf3c-rw9f-jh7v CVE-2023-48700 MODERATE

Clear Text Credentials Exposed via Onboarding Task

2024-11-22
GHSA-q6c7-56cq-g2wm CVE-2024-22032 HIGH

Rancher's RKE1 Encryption Config kept in plain-text within cluster AppliedSpec

2024-10-16
GHSA-ghgq-x6wc-6jr5 CVE-2024-6833 MODERATE

Zowe CLI allows storage of previously entered secure credentials in a plaintext file

2024-07-17
GHSA-wj85-rg5g-v8jm - MODERATE -

TYPO3 Information Disclosure in User Authentication

2024-05-30