org.mariadb:r2dbc-mariadb vulnerable to cleartext password disclosure to a man-in-the-middle server (clear-text auth plugins not gated on a secure transport)

Summary The connector does not gate clear-text password authentication plugins on transport encryption. A hostile or man-in-the-middle MariaDB server can request a clear-text plugin over an unencrypted plain-TCP connection, and the driver responds with the user's password in cleartext on the wire...

EUVD-2026-68023

MariaDB Connector/R2DBC is a non-blocking MariaDB and MySQL client implemented in Java. Prior to 1.4.1, org.mariadb:r2dbc-mariadb does not gate clear-text password authentication plugins on transport encryption because the AuthenticationPlugin interface has no capability for a plugin to require a...

CVE-2026-55215

MariaDB Connector/Node.js is vulnerable to cleartext password disclosure via a man-in-the-middle attack when ssl: true is set without a pinned CA or server certificate. The root cause lies in the TLS handshake logic: in handshake.js, a server selecting mysql_clear_password as the initial authenti...