MEDIUM 6.5
GHSA-rwqx-fvqh-6wm4
OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation: JDBC Auto-Instrumentation Logging Clear-Text Passwords
Quick fix
GHSA-rwqx-fvqh-6wm4 — io.opentelemetry.javaagent:opentelemetry-javaagent: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
# pom.xml: bump <version>2.28.0-alpha</version> for io.opentelemetry.javaagent:opentelemetry-javaagentDetails
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.
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Affected packages
Maven / io.opentelemetry.javaagent:opentelemetry-javaagent
Introduced in:
0 Fixed in: 2.28.0-alpha Fix
# pom.xml: bump <version>2.28.0-alpha</version> for io.opentelemetry.javaagent:opentelemetry-javaagent References
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/security/advisories/GHSA-rwqx-fvqh-6wm4 [WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54704 [ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/18754 [WEB]
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/commit/7ac7fa6fda6c2e3b65bc5d3c6eba050311a49511 [WEB]
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation [PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/releases/tag/v2.28.0 [WEB]