CVE-2026-44883CWE-598

Portainer: JWT accepted in URL query leaks tokens to logs and referers

High · published May 28, 2026

CVSS v4.0
7.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
38.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Portainer Community Edition is a lightweight service delivery platform for containerized applications that can be used to manage Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes and ACI environments. From 2.33.0 to before 2.33.8, 2.39.2, and 2.41.0, Portainer's authentication middleware accepts JWT bearer tokens passed as the ?token=<JWT> URL query parameter on any authenticated API endpoint, in addition to the standard Authorization: Bearer header. URLs are recorded in reverse-proxy access logs, browser history, and HTTP Referer headers on outbound navigation, so any JWT passed this way can be harvested by anyone with access to those logs or by an external site the user subsequently visits. A leaked token grants the full privileges of the user it was issued to, until the token expires (default 8 hours, configurable). The ?token= parameter was used by Portainer's browser-based container attach, exec, and pod shell features, so any user with exec or attach rights on a container was exposed — not only administrators. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.33.8, 2.39.2, and 2.41.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
7.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00457 · 38.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-598 · Use of HTTP Request With Sensitive Query String
Published
2026-05-28T20:59Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 MAY 20:59Z
    Portainer: JWT accepted in URL query leaks tokens to logs and referers
    cvelistv5