CVE-2025-6571
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedA 3rd-party component exposed its password in process arguments, allowing for low-privileged users to access it.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceA third-party component exposes its password through process command-line arguments, making the credentials visible in the process list to all users on the system, including low-privileged users who should not have access to these credentials.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Enumerate running processes with full command linesRun 'ps auxww' or 'ps -ef' to capture the full command-line arguments of all running processes. On Windows, use 'wmic process get processid,commandline' or 'Get-Process | Select-Object Id, CommandLine' in PowerShell.Affected if Any process shows a password, secret, token, or credential value as a command-line argument (e.g., --password=..., --pass=..., -p ... with visible value)
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Search process list for common credential argument patternsGrep or search the process output for keywords like 'password', 'passwd', 'pwd', 'secret', 'token', 'key', 'apikey', 'auth', 'credential' appearing as part of command-line arguments.Affected if Any match shows an actual credential value (not just the argument name) in the command line visible to all users
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Identify third-party or custom services with CLI passwordsReview startup scripts, systemd unit files, Windows services, or scheduled tasks that launch applications with credentials passed via command line. Use 'systemctl show <service>' or check /etc/init.d/ scripts.Affected if Any service or scheduled task launches a process with credentials in its startup command line
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Verify process visibility to low-privileged usersAs a non-privileged test user (or using 'ps' with different privilege levels), confirm whether the same command-line arguments are visible in the process list. On Linux, compare 'ps aux' (readable by all) vs. restricted views.Affected if Low-privileged users can view process command lines containing credentials belonging to higher-privileged or other application accounts
If any running process displays password, secret, or credential values in its command-line arguments visible to all system users, the environment is affected by this vulnerability.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataReplace command-line password arguments with secure credential storage mechanisms such as environment variables, a secrets manager, or properly secured configuration files with restricted permissions.
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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