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The ops library leaks secrets if `subprocess.CalledProcessError` happens with a `secret-*` CLI command

Type: advisorySources: OSV

The ops library is a Python framework for developing and testing Kubernetes and machine charms. The issue here is that ops passes the secret content as one of the args via CLI. This issue may affect any of the charms that are using: Juju (>=3.0), Juju secrets and not correctly capturing and processing `subprocess.CalledProcessError`. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.15.0.

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CVEs
CVE-2024-41129
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3 Nov 2026, 02:31 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

The ops library leaks secrets if `subprocess.CalledProcessError` happens with a `secret-*` CLI command

core-osv · Original source

Published 22 Jul 2024, 14:20 UTC

The ops library is a Python framework for developing and testing Kubernetes and machine charms. The issue here is that ops passes the secret content as one of the args via CLI. This issue may affect any of the charms that are using: Juju (>=3.0), Juju secrets and not correctly capturing and processing `subprocess.CalledProcessError`. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.15.0.

osv:CVE-2024-41129
Complete source record
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