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CVE-2025-54876: Jans CLI stores plaintext passwords in the local cli_cmd.log file

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-522

Description

The Janssen Project is an open-source identity and access management (IAM) platform. In versions 1.9.0 and below, Janssen stores passwords in plaintext in the local cli_cmd.log file. This is fixed in the nightly prerelease.

Affected products

• JanssenProject jans: < nightly

References

• https://github.com/JanssenProject/jans/commit/3592837764fe48b956e3140ca17b8ef7cac00a47
• https://github.com/JanssenProject/jans/discussions/11886
• https://github.com/JanssenProject/jans/pull/11903
• https://github.com/JanssenProject/jans/security/advisories/GHSA-2f4x-m695-jvp3

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