Unencrypted credentials

[indykoning]

Preconditions and environment

• Magento 2.4.9
• Set up Elasticsearch credentials, and Youtube credentials

Steps to reproduce

After having set up Magento with the different kinds of credentials i noticed where unlike most other API keys and passwords the Elasticsearch/Opensearch passwords and Youtube API key are saved plaintext.
When someone unauthorized manages to get read access to this data. e.g. via an old dump leaked, limited vulnerabilities or any other method. they could cause problems.

Expected result

I would expect all passwords and API keys to be encrypted so no full credentials can get exfiltrated

Actual result

A limited amount of passwords and API keys are stored plaintext

Additional information

No response

Release note

No response

Triage and priority

• Severity: S0 - Affects critical data or functionality and leaves users without workaround.
• Severity: S1 - Affects critical data or functionality and forces users to employ a workaround.
• Severity: S2 - Affects non-critical data or functionality and forces users to employ a workaround.
• Severity: S3 - Affects non-critical data or functionality and does not force users to employ a workaround.
• Severity: S4 - Affects aesthetics, professional look and feel, “quality” or “usability”.

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[github-jira-sync-bot]

✅ Jira issue https://jira.corp.adobe.com/browse/AC-17300 is successfully created for this GitHub issue.

[engcom-Bravo]

Hi @indykoning,

Thanks for your reporting and collaboration.

We gone through with the description and seems to be an enhancement to proceed further marking this as a Feature Request.

Thanks.