Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE-2026-42151
Summary
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system and time series database. Versions from 0.45.2 prior to versions 3.5.3 and 3.11.3, the "client_secret" field in the Azure AD remote write OAuth configuration (storage/remote/azuread) was typed as string instead of Secret. Prometheus redacts fields of type Secret when serving the configuration via the /-/config HTTP API endpoint. Because the field was a plain string, the Azure OAuth client secret was exposed in plaintext to any user or process with access to that endpoint. This issue has been patched in versions 3.5.3 and 3.11.3.
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- NETWORK
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- UNCHANGED
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- HIGH
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CWE-200 - Information Exposure
An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published