diff --git a/backend/packages/harness/deerflow/sandbox/env_policy.py b/backend/packages/harness/deerflow/sandbox/env_policy.py
index e86ba704d..d0603041f 100644
--- a/backend/packages/harness/deerflow/sandbox/env_policy.py
+++ b/backend/packages/harness/deerflow/sandbox/env_policy.py
@@ -37,6 +37,15 @@ _SECRET_NAME_PATTERNS: tuple[str, ...] = (
 # avoided — it would strip benign service URLs a skill may legitimately read.
 # A skill that genuinely needs one of these must declare it via required-secrets
 # (the caller then supplies it through context.secrets, and injection wins).
+#
+# The same reasoning covers the password variables those clients read directly.
+# ``MYSQL_PWD`` and ``REDISCLI_AUTH`` are the documented no-flag credential
+# sources for ``mysql`` and ``redis-cli``. ``REDIS_AUTH`` is *not* canonical for
+# any standard Redis client — it is blocked defensively because client libraries
+# and deployment charts commonly set it.
+# All three need exact entries: ``PWD``/``AUTH`` cannot be wildcarded, since
+# ``*PWD*`` would strip ``PWD`` and ``OLDPWD``. (``*PASSWORD*``/``*PASSWD*``
+# already cover ``PGPASSWORD``, ``MYSQL_PASSWORD``, ``REDIS_PASSWORD``, ...)
 _BLOCKED_EXACT_NAMES: frozenset[str] = frozenset(
     {
         "DATABASE_URL",
@@ -54,6 +63,9 @@ _BLOCKED_EXACT_NAMES: frozenset[str] = frozenset(
         "CONN_STR",
         "GH_PAT",
         "GITHUB_PAT",
+        "MYSQL_PWD",
+        "REDISCLI_AUTH",
+        "REDIS_AUTH",
     }
 )
 
diff --git a/backend/tests/test_skill_request_scoped_secrets.py b/backend/tests/test_skill_request_scoped_secrets.py
index 56f6ff0e4..f741c1997 100644
--- a/backend/tests/test_skill_request_scoped_secrets.py
+++ b/backend/tests/test_skill_request_scoped_secrets.py
@@ -160,6 +160,13 @@ class TestEnvPolicy:
             "POSTGRES_DSN",
             "CONN_STR",
             "GH_PAT",
+            # Password vars for services whose connection strings are already blocked
+            # above. These carry no KEY/SECRET/TOKEN/PASSWORD/PASSWD substring, and a
+            # blanket ``*PWD*`` / ``*AUTH*`` pattern would strip benign vars (``PWD``,
+            # ``OLDPWD``), so they need exact entries.
+            "MYSQL_PWD",  # read directly by mysql / libmysqlclient
+            "REDISCLI_AUTH",  # read directly by redis-cli
+            "REDIS_AUTH",
         ],
     )
     def test_secret_like_names_are_blocked(self, name):
@@ -177,6 +184,7 @@ class TestEnvPolicy:
             "LANG",
             "LC_ALL",
             "PWD",
+            "OLDPWD",
             "TMPDIR",
             "VIRTUAL_ENV",
             "PYTHONPATH",
@@ -192,6 +200,36 @@ class TestEnvPolicy:
 
         assert is_blocked_env_name(name) is False
 
+    def test_db_password_vars_do_not_reach_the_subprocess_env(self, monkeypatch):
+        """The URL forms are scrubbed; the password vars for the same services must be too.
+
+        ``mysql`` reads ``MYSQL_PWD`` and ``redis-cli`` reads ``REDISCLI_AUTH`` as the
+        password with no further configuration, so inheriting them hands a skill
+        subprocess the credential the connection-string block already withholds.
+        """
+        from deerflow.sandbox.env_policy import build_sandbox_env
+
+        monkeypatch.setenv("MYSQL_URL", "mysql://user:pw@host/db")
+        monkeypatch.setenv("MYSQL_PWD", "prod-db-password")
+        monkeypatch.setenv("REDISCLI_AUTH", "prod-redis-auth")
+        env = build_sandbox_env()
+        assert "MYSQL_URL" not in env
+        assert "MYSQL_PWD" not in env
+        assert "REDISCLI_AUTH" not in env
+        assert env.get("PWD")  # the working directory must survive the added entries
+
+    def test_injection_still_wins_for_the_newly_blocked_names(self, monkeypatch):
+        """``required-secrets`` stays the escape hatch for the names added here.
+
+        The request-scoped value must also override the host's, which is the
+        per-user-key-overrides-shared-key case from #3861.
+        """
+        from deerflow.sandbox.env_policy import build_sandbox_env
+
+        monkeypatch.setenv("MYSQL_PWD", "host-value-must-not-leak")
+        env = build_sandbox_env(injected={"MYSQL_PWD": "request-scoped-value"})
+        assert env["MYSQL_PWD"] == "request-scoped-value"
+
     def test_build_sandbox_env_scrubs_inherited_and_layers_injected(self, monkeypatch):
         from deerflow.sandbox.env_policy import build_sandbox_env