# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-33620"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-26T20:40:27.026Z"
updatedAt: "2026-03-30T14:54:23.611Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-33620"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-33620.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-33620"
title: "PinchTab: API Bearer Token Exposed in URL Query Parameter via Server Logs and Intermediary Systems"
summary: "PinchTab is a standalone HTTP server that gives AI agents direct control over a Chrome browser. PinchTab `v0.7.8` through `v0.8.3` accepted the API token from a `token` URL query parameter in addition to the `Authorization` header. When a valid API credential is sent in the URL, it can be exposed through request URIs recorded by intermediaries or client-side tooling, such as reverse proxy access logs, browser history, shell history, clipboard history, and tracing systems that capture full URLs. This issue is an unsafe credential transport pattern rather than a direct authentication bypass. It only affects deployments where a token is configured and a client actually uses the query-parameter form. PinchTab's security guidance already recommended `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e`, but `v0.8.3` still accepted `?token=` and included first-party flows that generated and consumed URLs containing the token. This was addressed in v0.8.4 by removing query-string token authentication and requiring safer header- or session-based authentication flows."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"\u003e= 0.7.8, \u003c 0.8.4","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"pinchtab","product":"pinchtab"}]

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