CVE-2026-50200: Steeltoe's env sanitizer misses connection strings — leaks embedded DB passwords
The Sanitizer component in the Environment actuator redacts configuration values by matching the configuration key name against a suffix list. The default list (password, secret, key, token, .*credentials.*, vcap_services) does not cover the standard .NET pattern ConnectionStrings:<name> or Steeltoe Connectors’ Steeltoe:Client:<type>:Default:ConnectionString. There is no value-based scrubbing, so full connection string values including embedded Password= and user:pass@host segments are returned verbatim in /actuator/env responses.
References
- github.com/SteeltoeOSS/Steeltoe/commit/bef9f14b710232fca3fbe87e48fdd1b9e6b60d43
- github.com/SteeltoeOSS/Steeltoe/commit/e50cd31a429b191841120f0d38fa9dda8f751b0a
- github.com/SteeltoeOSS/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-q62h-354g-5r85
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-q62h-354g-5r85
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-50200
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