CVE-2025-52490: Couchbase Sync Gateway shows cleartext passwords in redacted and unredacted output

July 29, 2025 (updated June 5, 2026)

An issue was discovered in Couchbase Sync Gateway before 3.2.6. In sgcollect_info_options.log and sync_gateway.log, there are cleartext passwords in redacted and unredacted output.

References

docs.couchbase.com/server/current/release-notes/relnotes.html
forums.couchbase.com/tags/security
github.com/advisories/GHSA-pqhp-4xfc-hjgq
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52490
www.couchbase.com/alerts

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