What is CVE-2026-54704?

CVE-2026-54704 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linuxfoundation Opentelemetry Instrumentation For Java, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-07-01.

How severe is CVE-2026-54704?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Linuxfoundation Opentelemetry Instrumentation For Java

CVE-2026-54704

OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation provides OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation and instrumentation libraries for Java. In versions prior to 2.28.0, the JDBC auto-instrumentation may fail to sanitize passwords in SQL CONNECT statements when the password is double-quoted. As a result, clear-text database passwords can be added to trace span attributes and exported to observability backends. This issue has been fixed in version 2.28.0.

EPSS: 0.002 (13.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Linuxfoundation Opentelemetry_instrumentation_for_java
Open-telemetry Opentelemetry-java-instrumentation — versions < 2.28.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-54704?: CVE-2026-54704 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linuxfoundation Opentelemetry Instrumentation For Java, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-07-01.
How severe is CVE-2026-54704?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.