Home Assistant: token secrets

Home Assistant

Home Assistant stores token secrets in cleartext and has non-expiring token classes

Do this now

Check the vendor's advisory for a fix, restrict access to Home Assistant, and revoke long-lived tokens meanwhile.

Who should check: teams running Homelab apps

First seen: 8 Nov 2026
Last update: 10 Nov 2026, 14:07 UTC
Source: news
On the menu as: Homelab apps

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## Home Assistant: token secrets
Severity: unknown. Patch status: fix status unknown.
Affected: Home Assistant

Home Assistant stores token secrets in cleartext and has non-expiring token classes

## Steps
1. This touches infrastructure (self-hosted). Look in terraform, ansible, cloud-init, Dockerfiles and docs for the product and version we run. If it isn't in the repo, say so and list what a human should check on the box.
2. No source names a fix yet; check the vendor advisory. Until one ships: restrict network access to it.

## Report
A table: file, product or package, version in use, affected yes/no, exact fix. Then anything a human has to check outside the repo.

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Sources: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q4/578 https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q4/611 https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q4/613 https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q4/619 https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q4/621
https://pwned.coffee/i/home-assistant-token-secrets

Timeline

10 Nov 2026, 14:07 UTC
Fix status: no fix yet → unknown.
10 Nov 2026, 05:17 UTC
Reported by seclists.org: Re: Home Assistant: the password is not the key — token secrets in cleartext, two token classes never expire, password change revokes none (2026.11.0, live-proven)
10 Nov 2026, 03:17 UTC
Reported by seclists.org: Re: Home Assistant: the password is not the key — token secrets in cleartext, two token classes never expire, password change revokes none (2026.11.0, live-proven)
9 Nov 2026, 23:17 UTC
Reported by seclists.org: Re: Home Assistant: the password is not the key — token secrets in cleartext, two token classes never expire, password change revokes none (2026.11.0, live-proven)
9 Nov 2026, 22:17 UTC
Fix status: unknown → no fix yet.
9 Nov 2026, 22:17 UTC
Reported by seclists.org: Re: Home Assistant: the password is not the key — token secrets in cleartext, two token classes never expire, password change revokes none (2026.11.0, live-proven)
9 Nov 2026, 00:18 UTC
Fix status: no fix yet → unknown.
8 Nov 2026
First reported.

Receipt

Exploitation: No known exploitation
Score: No CVSS published yet: severity unknown.
Last checked: 13 Nov 2026, 16:26 UTC

Sources: KEV – CVE record – Vendor –

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