open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation · Security
OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation: JDBC Auto-Instrumentation Logging Clear-Text Passwords
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-rwqx-fvqh-6wm4
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-54704
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Description
OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation 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.
CWEs
- CWE-532 · Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
References
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/security/advisories/GHSA-rwqx-fvqh-6wm4 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54704 ↗
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/18754 ↗
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/commit/7ac7fa6fda6c2e3b65bc5d3c6eba050311a49511 ↗
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/releases/tag/v2.28.0 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rwqx-fvqh-6wm4 ↗