When the Vercel CLI runs in non-interactive mode (--non-interactive or auto-detected AI agent), commands that cannot complete autonomously emit JSON payloads with suggested follow-up commands. If the user authenticated via --token or -t on the command line, the token value is included verbatim in those suggestions.
All three must be true for the token to appear in output:
--token / -t). The VERCEL_TOKEN environment variable is not affected.--yes, ambiguous scope, API errors). Successful commands produce no suggestion output.The plaintext token may be captured in CI/CD logs, agent transcripts, or other automation output.
--token with --non-interactive in their applications, review logs for exposed tokens and rotate them.VERCEL_TOKEN environment variable for authentication.{
"github_reviewed": true,
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-200",
"CWE-532"
],
"severity": "MODERATE",
"github_reviewed_at": "2026-05-07T00:05:20Z",
"nvd_published_at": null
}