PYSEC-2026-3753

opensslencrypt versions before 1.4.0 expose passwords passed via the --password CLI argument in process listings accessible to all system users. Attackers can read process arguments through ps aux or /proc/pid/cmdline to retrieve plaintext passwords and keystore passwords...

SUSE CVE-2019-10183

Virt-install1 utility used to provision new virtual machines has introduced an option '--unattended' to create VMs without user interaction. This option accepts guest VM password as command line arguments, thus leaking them to others users on the system via process listing. It was introduced...

convert2rhel: Activation key passed via command line by code

There is a flaw in convert2rhel. When the --activationkey option is used with convert2rhel, the activation key is subsequently passed to subscription-manager via the command line, which could allow unauthorized users locally on the machine to view the activation key via the process command line v...

virt-install: unattended option leaks password via command line argument

The virt-install utility used to provision new virtual machines, in virt-manager v2.2.0, has introduced an option '--unattended' to create VMs without user interaction. This option accepts guest VM password as command line arguments. An attacker could obtain these passwords though process listing...

JBoss: twiddle.sh accepts credentials as command line arguments, exposing them to other local users via a process listing

twiddle.sh in JBoss AS 5.0 and EAP 5.0 and earlier accepts credentials as command-line arguments, which allows local users to read the credentials by listing the process and its arguments...

Information disclosure

Podcast Capture in Podcast Producer for Apple Mac OS X 10.5.2 invokes a subtask with passwords in command line arguments, which allows local users to read the passwords via process listings...