CVE-2026-50200
### Summary The `Sanitizer` component in the Environment actuator redacts configuration values by matching the configuration key name against a suffix list. The default list (`password`, `secret`, `key`, `token`, `.*credentials.*`, `vcap_services`) does not cover the standard .NET pattern `ConnectionStrings:<name>` or Steeltoe Connectors' `Steeltoe:Client:<type>:Default:ConnectionString`. There is no value-based scrubbing, so full connection string values including embedded `Password=` and `user:pass@host` segments are returned verbatim in `/actuator/env` responses. ### Impact Any caller who can reach `/actuator/env` can receive connection strings containing plaintext credentials. Those credentials enable direct connection to the backing database, bypassing the application tier. ### Affected configuration - Application configuration contains credentials in `ConnectionStrings:*` or `*:ConnectionString` keys. - On standard deployments: `env` is added to `Management:Endpoints:Actuator:Exposure:Include`. This is not the default. - On Cloud Foundry: the `/cloudfoundryapplication/env` path is accessible to any authenticated CF user with `read_basic_data` permissions (Space Auditor and above) regardless of the exposure configuration. ### Mitigations If an immediate upgrade is not possible: - On the standard path, remove `env` from the actuator exposure list. - Add `.*connectionstring.*` to `KeysToSanitize` as a defense-in-depth measure for both paths. - Require authorization on actuator endpoints.
Properties
- summary
- Steeltoe's env sanitizer misses connection strings — leaks embedded DB passwords
- severity
- high
- epss_score
- 0.00185
- cvss_score
- 7.5
- ghsa_published
- 2026-07-02T20:31:11Z
- source_url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q62h-354g-5r85
- ghsa_updated
- 2026-07-02T20:31:13Z
- ghsa_id
- GHSA-q62h-354g-5r85
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-50200
- cvss_vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- is_ghsa_only
- false
- epss_percentile
- 0.08391
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