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CWE-261

Weak Encoding for Password

36 CVEs Avg CVSS 6.8 MITRE
3
CRITICAL
9
HIGH
21
MEDIUM
2
LOW
2
POC
0
KEV

Monthly

CVE-2026-63424 Aug 13, 14:52 HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in Lenovo Dock Manager exposes local authenticated users to full system compromise via an improperly protected cryptographic key, discovered during Lenovo's own internal security assessment. An attacker with a standard local user account can extract the weakly protected key and leverage it to elevate privileges on the affected endpoint. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis; Lenovo has released a patch via advisory LEN-223470.

Privilege Escalation Lenovo Dock Manager
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
7.0
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-73589 Sep 23, 14:30 MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Weak, reversible password encoding in Dell Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) Policy Manager lets a local, low-privileged user who already holds an account on the host recover stored credentials and abuse them for information disclosure, information tampering, protection-mechanism bypass and unauthorized access. The flaw affects versions prior to 5.34.00.16 and prior to 5.36 and is scored CVSS 6.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N) - it is not remotely reachable and requires no user interaction, but it does require local access to the host plus a pre-existing low-privileged account, with the high attack complexity reflecting the work needed to locate and reverse the weak encoding. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and this is a moderate, defense-in-depth issue rather than a front-line priority.

Information Disclosure Dell Secure Connect Gateway Scg Policy Manager
NVD
CVSS 3.1
6.3
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-67596 Jul 30, 14:59 MEDIUM POC This Month

Credential exposure in CSL 1010 M2M 3G WiFi Module firmware through 2.2.1.4 stems from a trivially reversible single-byte XOR cipher with a hard-coded static key used to 'protect' the Router.cfg configuration backup file. An attacker with local access to the device can decrypt the backup and recover web administration passwords, telnet credentials, WPA/WPA2 pre-shared keys, PPPoE and 3G/APN credentials, and SIM identifiers (IMSI and IMEI) in plaintext. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, KEV listing is absent, and no fixed firmware version has been confirmed.

Information Disclosure Csl 1010 M2M 3G Wifi Module
NVD GitHub
CVSS 4.0
6.9
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-53692 Jun 30, 11:20 MEDIUM This Month

Redeight CMS 1.0 stores user passwords using unsalted MD5 hashes, enabling any attacker who obtains the credential database to recover plaintext passwords nearly instantaneously via precomputed rainbow tables. All stored credentials are effectively exposed upon database compromise, since MD5 is cryptographically broken and the absence of per-user salts eliminates hash uniqueness across identical passwords. No public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, but the cracking technique is trivially automated and requires no specialized skill.

Information Disclosure Redeight Cms Redeight
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
5.9
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-40639 Jun 09, 18:04 MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Weak password encoding in Dell Client Platform BIOS (CWE-261) exposes BIOS credentials to recovery by a physically present unauthenticated attacker, enabling privilege escalation through unauthorized BIOS access. Affected hardware spans ruggedized Latitude field devices, Precision workstation towers and racks, and Edge/Embedded Gateway platforms - product categories frequently deployed in physically accessible or unattended environments. No public exploit code exists and no active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, but the combination of credential recoverability and high-confidentiality/high-integrity CVSS impact makes patching a priority for organizations managing assets in low-physical-security locations.

Information Disclosure Dell Dell Edge Gateway 3000 Dell Edge Gateway 5000 Dell Embedded Pc 3000 +9
NVD
CVSS 3.1
5.7
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2026-25607 May 22, 09:14 MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Weak password encoding in STER (all versions before 9.5) exposes stored credentials to local reverse-engineering by any low-privileged user on the system. The root cause (CWE-261) is use of a reversible or insufficiently one-way encoding scheme rather than a cryptographically strong hashing algorithm, enabling an attacker who can observe encoded password data to deduce plaintext values by analyzing patterns across known-value samples. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog; however, the high confidentiality impact (VC:H in CVSS 4.0) confirms that successful exploitation fully exposes affected credentials. The issue was reported by CERT-PL and fixed by CIOP-PIB in version 9.5.

Information Disclosure Ster Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy Pa Stwowy Instytut Badawczy
NVD
CVSS 4.0
5.7
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2025-11500 Mar 16, 09:26 HIGH PATCH This Week

An authentication bypass vulnerability in Tinycontrol network devices (tcPDU and LAN Controllers LK3.5, LK3.9, LK4) exposes usernames and encoded passwords for both normal and admin users through unauthenticated HTTP requests to the login page. The vulnerability affects devices running older firmware versions when the secondary authentication mechanism is disabled (default setting), allowing any attacker on the local network to harvest credentials without authentication. With an EPSS score of 0.00043 and no KEV listing, this vulnerability shows low real-world exploitation activity despite its high CVSS score of 8.7.

Information Disclosure Lk4 Tcpdu Lan Kontroler V3 5 Lk3 9
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
8.7
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-0809 Mar 12, 13:16 MEDIUM This Month

Use of a custom token encoding algorithm in Streamsoft Prestiż software allows the value of the KSeF (Krajowy System e-Faktur) token to be guessed after analyzing how tokens with know values are encoded. This issue was fixed in version 20.0.380.92.

Information Disclosure
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
6.3
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2024-52334 Feb 10, 10:15 MEDIUM This Month

A vulnerability has been identified in syngo.plaza VB30E (All versions < VB30E_HF07). The affected application does not encrypt the passwords properly. [CVSS 5.3 MEDIUM]

Authentication Bypass
NVD
CVSS 3.1
5.3
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2025-67652 Jan 22, 23:15 MEDIUM This Month

An attacker with access to the project file could use the exposed credentials to impersonate users, escalate privileges, or gain unauthorized access to systems and services. [CVSS 6.1 MEDIUM]

Authentication Bypass
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
6.1
EPSS
0.0%
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in Lenovo Dock Manager exposes local authenticated users to full system compromise via an improperly protected cryptographic key, discovered during Lenovo's own internal security assessment. An attacker with a standard local user account can extract the weakly protected key and leverage it to elevate privileges on the affected endpoint. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis; Lenovo has released a patch via advisory LEN-223470.

Privilege Escalation Lenovo Dock Manager
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Weak, reversible password encoding in Dell Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) Policy Manager lets a local, low-privileged user who already holds an account on the host recover stored credentials and abuse them for information disclosure, information tampering, protection-mechanism bypass and unauthorized access. The flaw affects versions prior to 5.34.00.16 and prior to 5.36 and is scored CVSS 6.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N) - it is not remotely reachable and requires no user interaction, but it does require local access to the host plus a pre-existing low-privileged account, with the high attack complexity reflecting the work needed to locate and reverse the weak encoding. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and this is a moderate, defense-in-depth issue rather than a front-line priority.

Information Disclosure Dell Secure Connect Gateway Scg Policy Manager
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM POC This Month

Credential exposure in CSL 1010 M2M 3G WiFi Module firmware through 2.2.1.4 stems from a trivially reversible single-byte XOR cipher with a hard-coded static key used to 'protect' the Router.cfg configuration backup file. An attacker with local access to the device can decrypt the backup and recover web administration passwords, telnet credentials, WPA/WPA2 pre-shared keys, PPPoE and 3G/APN credentials, and SIM identifiers (IMSI and IMEI) in plaintext. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, KEV listing is absent, and no fixed firmware version has been confirmed.

Information Disclosure Csl 1010 M2M 3G Wifi Module
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.9
MEDIUM This Month

Redeight CMS 1.0 stores user passwords using unsalted MD5 hashes, enabling any attacker who obtains the credential database to recover plaintext passwords nearly instantaneously via precomputed rainbow tables. All stored credentials are effectively exposed upon database compromise, since MD5 is cryptographically broken and the absence of per-user salts eliminates hash uniqueness across identical passwords. No public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, but the cracking technique is trivially automated and requires no specialized skill.

Information Disclosure Redeight Cms Redeight
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.7
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Weak password encoding in Dell Client Platform BIOS (CWE-261) exposes BIOS credentials to recovery by a physically present unauthenticated attacker, enabling privilege escalation through unauthorized BIOS access. Affected hardware spans ruggedized Latitude field devices, Precision workstation towers and racks, and Edge/Embedded Gateway platforms - product categories frequently deployed in physically accessible or unattended environments. No public exploit code exists and no active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, but the combination of credential recoverability and high-confidentiality/high-integrity CVSS impact makes patching a priority for organizations managing assets in low-physical-security locations.

Information Disclosure Dell Dell Edge Gateway 3000 +11
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.7
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Weak password encoding in STER (all versions before 9.5) exposes stored credentials to local reverse-engineering by any low-privileged user on the system. The root cause (CWE-261) is use of a reversible or insufficiently one-way encoding scheme rather than a cryptographically strong hashing algorithm, enabling an attacker who can observe encoded password data to deduce plaintext values by analyzing patterns across known-value samples. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog; however, the high confidentiality impact (VC:H in CVSS 4.0) confirms that successful exploitation fully exposes affected credentials. The issue was reported by CERT-PL and fixed by CIOP-PIB in version 9.5.

Information Disclosure Ster Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy Pa Stwowy Instytut Badawczy
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

An authentication bypass vulnerability in Tinycontrol network devices (tcPDU and LAN Controllers LK3.5, LK3.9, LK4) exposes usernames and encoded passwords for both normal and admin users through unauthenticated HTTP requests to the login page. The vulnerability affects devices running older firmware versions when the secondary authentication mechanism is disabled (default setting), allowing any attacker on the local network to harvest credentials without authentication. With an EPSS score of 0.00043 and no KEV listing, this vulnerability shows low real-world exploitation activity despite its high CVSS score of 8.7.

Information Disclosure Lk4 Tcpdu +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.3
MEDIUM This Month

Use of a custom token encoding algorithm in Streamsoft Prestiż software allows the value of the KSeF (Krajowy System e-Faktur) token to be guessed after analyzing how tokens with know values are encoded. This issue was fixed in version 20.0.380.92.

Information Disclosure
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM This Month

A vulnerability has been identified in syngo.plaza VB30E (All versions < VB30E_HF07). The affected application does not encrypt the passwords properly. [CVSS 5.3 MEDIUM]

Authentication Bypass
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.1
MEDIUM This Month

An attacker with access to the project file could use the exposed credentials to impersonate users, escalate privileges, or gain unauthorized access to systems and services. [CVSS 6.1 MEDIUM]

Authentication Bypass
NVD GitHub

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