Vulnerability in Hugging Face Text Embeddings Inference

[ Description ]Official description

Hugging Face Text Embeddings Inference through 1.9.4 contains a cleartext logging vulnerability that exposes the configured api_key because the router's Args struct lacks a redact attribute for it. Attackers with access to router logs, container output, or OTLP telemetry can recover the Bearer token and call the protected embedding and rerank endpoints.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ References ]References

• github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference
• github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference/blob/e80ef225ed0e6cb1717ce632a6a84b6cf…
• github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference/blob/e80ef225ed0e6cb1717ce632a6a84b6cf…
• hackmd.io/@1ExmmukzRMWN7B4gQ4W-4Q/huggingface-text-embeddings-inference-api-key-startup…
• www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hugging-face-text-embeddings-inference-through-1.9.4-clear…