Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials via the SendPamAuthPacketFactory process. An attacker can obtain sensitive authentication credentials by intercepting network traffic or acting as a man-in-the-middle server during the authentication...

CVE-2026-55857: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

MariaDB Connector/J is used to connect applications developed in Java to MariaDB and MySQL databases. Prior to 2.7.14, 3.3.5, 3.4.3, and 3.5.9, PAM dialog authentication can be coerced into transmitting the account password over an insecure connection. The mysqlclearpassword plugin is gated behin...