Exposure of Sensitive Information Through Environmental Variables Affecting utcp-cli package, versions [,1.1.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.22% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-UTCPCLI-16759111
  • published19 May 2026
  • disclosed14 May 2026
  • credit0XJacks

Introduced: 14 May 2026

CVE-2026-45370  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-526  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade utcp-cli to version 1.1.2 or higher.

Overview

utcp-cli is an UTCP communication protocol plugin for wrapping local command-line tools.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive Information Through Environmental Variables via the _prepare_environment function. An attacker can access and exfiltrate sensitive environment variables by injecting malicious commands into subprocess calls.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1