Plaintext Storage of a Password Affecting opentelemetry-collector-contrib package, versions <0:0.161.0-0.1.hum1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-OPENTELEMETRYCOLLECTORCONTRIB-19895038
  • published22 Sept 2026
  • disclosed16 Sept 2026

Introduced: 16 Sep 2026

CVE-2026-77407  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-256  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:10 opentelemetry-collector-contrib to version 0:0.161.0-0.1.hum1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2026:68290.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream opentelemetry-collector-contrib package and not the opentelemetry-collector-contrib package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

RabbitMQ amqp091-go is a Go AMQP 0.9.1 client. Prior to 1.13.0, PlainAuth values defined in auth.go retain passwords as exported plaintext fields in Connection.Config.SASL after a successful PLAIN authentication handshake. The Connection.openComplete method in connection.go does not clear those values. Code with access to the Connection object, including reflective loggers, application performance monitoring agents, debugging utilities, and panic handlers, can traverse the configuration and expose the credentials to logs or state captures. The credential remains available for the lifetime of the connection instead of being cleared after authentication. This issue is fixed in version 1.13.0.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1