# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-9494"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-16T12:12:27.447Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-16T15:11:07.229Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-9494"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-9494.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-9494"
title: "ubuntu-pro-client Information Disclosure via Cleartext Bearer Token Exposure in Process Command Line"
summary: "An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Canonical ubuntu-pro-client (formerly ubuntu-advantage-tools). The client validates Ubuntu Pro APT credentials by executing /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper using the download-file command. During this process, the secret bearer token is embedded directly in\nthe cleartext URL component passed via the command-line arguments (argv), resulting in a URL format such as https://bearer:\u003ctoken\u003e@esm.ubuntu.com/.../. On systems utilizing a default-mounted /proc file system where process-hiding mitigations (such as hidepid) are disabled, an unprivileged local attacker can\nmonitor system processes and read the sensitive bearer token directly from /proc/cmdline while the helper process is actively running. This leaked token can subsequently be used to gain unauthorized access to the victim's Ubuntu Pro or Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) repositories."
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