Hugging Face Text Embeddings Inference through 1.9.4 contains a cleartext logging vulnerability that exposes the configured api_key because the router's Args struct lacks a redact attribute for it. A…
Low CVSS 3.3
Summary
Hugging Face Text Embeddings Inference through 1.9.4 contains a cleartext logging vulnerability that exposes the configured api_key because the router's Args struct lacks a redact attribute for it. Attackers with access to router logs, container output, or OTLP telemetry can recover the Bearer token and call the protected embedding and rerank endpoints.
In-depth triage
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference
- https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference/blob/e80ef225ed0e6cb1717ce632a6a84b6cf211bb67/router/src/main.rs#L170-L174
- https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference/blob/e80ef225ed0e6cb1717ce632a6a84b6cf211bb67/router/src/main.rs#L204-L216
- https://hackmd.io/@1ExmmukzRMWN7B4gQ4W-4Q/huggingface-text-embeddings-inference-api-key-startup-log
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hugging-face-text-embeddings-inference-through-1.9.4-cleartext-api-key-logging
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD