CVE-2026-108857: medium-severity vulnerability in Hugging Face Text Embeddings Inference
Hugging Face Text Embeddings Inference through 1.9.4 Cleartext API Key Logging
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 4.8epss 0.1%
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
Hugging Face · Text Embeddings InferenceReferences
https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inferencehttps://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference/blob/e80ef225ed0e6cb1717ce632a6a84b6cf211bb67/router/src/main.rs#L170-L174https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference/blob/e80ef225ed0e6cb1717ce632a6a84b6cf211bb67/router/src/main.rs#L204-L216https://hackmd.io/@1ExmmukzRMWN7B4gQ4W-4Q/huggingface-text-embeddings-inference-api-key-startup-loghttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hugging-face-text-embeddings-inference-through-1.9.4-cleartext-api-key-logging