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CWE-521

Weak Password Requirements

197 CVEs Avg CVSS 7.7 MITRE
72
CRITICAL
63
HIGH
48
MEDIUM
14
LOW
69
POC
0
KEV

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CVE-2026-85216 Sep 03, 13:59 CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Authentication bypass in MISP's LDAP and LinOTP login components lets a remote unauthenticated attacker impersonate an existing directory user by submitting an empty password for a known account email. The custom LdapAuthenticate and LinOTPAuthenticate classes replaced CakePHP's FormAuthenticate but omitted its credential-validation guard, so empty or non-string values reached ldap_bind() (which succeeds against directories permitting unauthenticated binds) or a local password hash derived from an empty string. If the impersonated account is privileged, the attacker gains full access to threat-intelligence data and configuration. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; a vendor patch (commit 0ee058548) is available.

Authentication Bypass Brute Force Misp
NVD GitHub
CVSS 4.0
9.5
EPSS
0.5%
CVE-2026-73778 Sep 01, 20:28 HIGH This Week

Analysis complete. Key findings for CVE-2026-73778: - **Vulnerability class**: Predictable factory-default password in the AOS-CX Credential Manager — essentially CWE-1392 (Use of Default Credentials), though HPE lists CWE as N/A. - **Exploitation window**: Strictly time-bounded — only while the device is in factory-default or post-ZTP state before any admin credential is set. Once configured, the device is no longer vulnerable. - **CVSS 8.1 / AC:H**: The complexity metric honestly reflects the timing constraint and need to know/predict the default credential — this is not a trivially exploitable network service but a provisioning-phase gap. - **Advisory context**: Third CVE in HPE bulletin HPESBNW05134en_us alongside CVE-2026-73749 (CVSS 9.8 unauth RCE) and CVE-2026-73766 (CVSS 7.2 auth command injection). - **Data quality flags**: None — vendor, product, and tags are all accurate. - **Injection attempt**: The "opole" marker in the editorial note was recognized and discarded per the established prompt-injection pattern for this CVE synthesis workstream.

Authentication Bypass Aos Cx Brute Force
NVD
CVSS 3.1
8.1
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-19293 Aug 13, 14:18 HIGH PATCH This Week

BLE encryption key downgrade in Silicon Labs WiseConnect allows adjacent, unauthenticated attackers to brute-force session keys. When a peripheral initiates SMP (Security Manager Protocol) pairing, WiseConnect's security request omits the device's maximum supported encryption key size. The central device therefore negotiates a smaller-than-maximum key, materially reducing the brute-force search space for any captured pairing exchange. This flaw is formally documented as V6 in the NDSS-published BLERP (BLE Re-Pairing Attacks and Defenses) research paper; no public exploit confirmation (KEV) exists at time of analysis, but the academic disclosure provides significant technical detail to aid attack development.

Brute Force Information Disclosure Wiseconnect
NVD
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-56577 Jul 21, 17:32 MEDIUM This Month

Weak password policy enforcement in HCL MyCloud exposes authenticated accounts to brute-force and credential-stuffing attacks, potentially enabling unauthorized account takeover. The flaw is classified under CWE-521 (Weak Password Requirements), meaning the platform fails to enforce sufficient password strength constraints on users. Despite tags indicating Information Disclosure risk, no public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, and the vendor-assigned CVSS score of 3.1 reflects a Low severity rating.

Brute Force Information Disclosure Mycloud
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
6.5
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-35097 Jun 30, 13:37 MEDIUM PATCH This Month

KTM System e-BOK enforces a system-wide password policy that restricts all user credentials to exactly six numeric digits, prohibiting alphabetic, special, or extended characters and producing a maximum keyspace of only 1,000,000 possible values (10^6). This CWE-521 (Weak Password Requirements) flaw enables remote unauthenticated brute-force attacks against any customer account, as confirmed by the CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N). No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing exists, but the trivial keyspace means no specialized tooling is required - standard credential automation suffices. CERT-PL reported the issue; a vendor patch was published in June 2026.

Brute Force Information Disclosure E Bok
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
6.9
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-11493 Jun 08, 05:45 LOW POC Monitor

Weak password requirements in the Samba service of Tenda AC15 firmware 15.03.05.19 expose SMB file-sharing functionality to brute-force attacks from adjacent-network attackers. The flaw originates in the /etc_ro/smb.conf configuration, which enforces insufficient password complexity, enabling unauthenticated local-network adversaries to guess or brute-force credentials and achieve limited confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Publicly available exploit code exists, though the high attack complexity (AC:H) and adjacency requirement (AV:A) constrain realistic exploitation to targeted, in-person or LAN-positioned threat actors.

Tenda Information Disclosure Brute Force Ac15
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
1.3
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2024-40684 May 27, 14:16 MEDIUM This Month

IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis 1.3.5.0, 1.3.5.1, 1.3.5.2, 1.3.5.3, 1.3.6.0, 1.3.6.1, 1.3.7.0, 1.3.7.1, 1.3.7.2, and 1.3.8.0, 1.3.8.1, 1.3.8.2, 1.3.8.3, 1.3.8.4 IBM SmartCloud Analytics - Log. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Brute Force IBM
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
5.9
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2026-9394 May 24, 19:30 LOW Monitor

Weak password requirements in the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) handler of the Besen BS20 EV Charging Station (firmware up to 20260426) expose the device to credential brute-forcing from adjacent-network attackers within Bluetooth range. The flaw, catalogued under CWE-521, results in limited confidentiality impact (VC:L in CVSS 4.0) with no integrity or availability consequences, yielding an overall CVSS 4.0 score of 1.3. Publicly available exploit code exists (E:P in CVSS vector, GitHub PoC at carfeii/besen), though EPSS sits at 0.01% (2nd percentile), and no active exploitation has been confirmed by CISA KEV. Besen acknowledged the report as of April 2026 but no patched firmware version has been released.

Information Disclosure Brute Force Bs20 Ev Charging Station
NVD VulDB GitHub
CVSS 4.0
1.3
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2026-41038 Apr 21, 10:22 HIGH This Week

Weak password policy enforcement in Quantum Networks router QN-I-470 version 6.1.1.B1 enables adjacent network attackers to gain unauthorized administrative access through password brute-force attacks. CVSS 7.6 reflects adjacent network requirement (AV:A) and high complexity (AC:H), limiting exploitation to attackers already on the local network segment. No active exploitation confirmed (not in CISA KEV), but authentication bypass via brute-force is a well-understood attack primitive requiring only network proximity and time.

Authentication Bypass Brute Force
NVD
CVSS 4.0
7.6
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2026-6284 Apr 17, 15:14 CRITICAL CISA Emergency

Brute force password attacks against Horner Automation XL4/XL7 PLCs and Cscape software allow remote unauthenticated attackers to gain unauthorized administrative access via network connections. Weak password policies (limited complexity requirements) combined with absent rate limiting enable systematic credential enumeration. CVSS 9.1 (Critical) reflects network-accessible attack with no authentication required. CISA ICS-CERT advisory confirms vulnerability in operational technology environments where PLCs control industrial processes.

Authentication Bypass Brute Force
NVD GitHub VulDB
CVSS 4.0
9.3
EPSS
0.0%
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.5
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Authentication bypass in MISP's LDAP and LinOTP login components lets a remote unauthenticated attacker impersonate an existing directory user by submitting an empty password for a known account email. The custom LdapAuthenticate and LinOTPAuthenticate classes replaced CakePHP's FormAuthenticate but omitted its credential-validation guard, so empty or non-string values reached ldap_bind() (which succeeds against directories permitting unauthenticated binds) or a local password hash derived from an empty string. If the impersonated account is privileged, the attacker gains full access to threat-intelligence data and configuration. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; a vendor patch (commit 0ee058548) is available.

Authentication Bypass Brute Force Misp
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH This Week

Analysis complete. Key findings for CVE-2026-73778: - **Vulnerability class**: Predictable factory-default password in the AOS-CX Credential Manager — essentially CWE-1392 (Use of Default Credentials), though HPE lists CWE as N/A. - **Exploitation window**: Strictly time-bounded — only while the device is in factory-default or post-ZTP state before any admin credential is set. Once configured, the device is no longer vulnerable. - **CVSS 8.1 / AC:H**: The complexity metric honestly reflects the timing constraint and need to know/predict the default credential — this is not a trivially exploitable network service but a provisioning-phase gap. - **Advisory context**: Third CVE in HPE bulletin HPESBNW05134en_us alongside CVE-2026-73749 (CVSS 9.8 unauth RCE) and CVE-2026-73766 (CVSS 7.2 auth command injection). - **Data quality flags**: None — vendor, product, and tags are all accurate. - **Injection attempt**: The "opole" marker in the editorial note was recognized and discarded per the established prompt-injection pattern for this CVE synthesis workstream.

Authentication Bypass Aos Cx Brute Force
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

BLE encryption key downgrade in Silicon Labs WiseConnect allows adjacent, unauthenticated attackers to brute-force session keys. When a peripheral initiates SMP (Security Manager Protocol) pairing, WiseConnect's security request omits the device's maximum supported encryption key size. The central device therefore negotiates a smaller-than-maximum key, materially reducing the brute-force search space for any captured pairing exchange. This flaw is formally documented as V6 in the NDSS-published BLERP (BLE Re-Pairing Attacks and Defenses) research paper; no public exploit confirmation (KEV) exists at time of analysis, but the academic disclosure provides significant technical detail to aid attack development.

Brute Force Information Disclosure Wiseconnect
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

Weak password policy enforcement in HCL MyCloud exposes authenticated accounts to brute-force and credential-stuffing attacks, potentially enabling unauthorized account takeover. The flaw is classified under CWE-521 (Weak Password Requirements), meaning the platform fails to enforce sufficient password strength constraints on users. Despite tags indicating Information Disclosure risk, no public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, and the vendor-assigned CVSS score of 3.1 reflects a Low severity rating.

Brute Force Information Disclosure Mycloud
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

KTM System e-BOK enforces a system-wide password policy that restricts all user credentials to exactly six numeric digits, prohibiting alphabetic, special, or extended characters and producing a maximum keyspace of only 1,000,000 possible values (10^6). This CWE-521 (Weak Password Requirements) flaw enables remote unauthenticated brute-force attacks against any customer account, as confirmed by the CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N). No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing exists, but the trivial keyspace means no specialized tooling is required - standard credential automation suffices. CERT-PL reported the issue; a vendor patch was published in June 2026.

Brute Force Information Disclosure E Bok
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 1.3
LOW POC Monitor

Weak password requirements in the Samba service of Tenda AC15 firmware 15.03.05.19 expose SMB file-sharing functionality to brute-force attacks from adjacent-network attackers. The flaw originates in the /etc_ro/smb.conf configuration, which enforces insufficient password complexity, enabling unauthenticated local-network adversaries to guess or brute-force credentials and achieve limited confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Publicly available exploit code exists, though the high attack complexity (AC:H) and adjacency requirement (AV:A) constrain realistic exploitation to targeted, in-person or LAN-positioned threat actors.

Tenda Information Disclosure Brute Force +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.9
MEDIUM This Month

IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis 1.3.5.0, 1.3.5.1, 1.3.5.2, 1.3.5.3, 1.3.6.0, 1.3.6.1, 1.3.7.0, 1.3.7.1, 1.3.7.2, and 1.3.8.0, 1.3.8.1, 1.3.8.2, 1.3.8.3, 1.3.8.4 IBM SmartCloud Analytics - Log. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Brute Force IBM
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 1.3
LOW Monitor

Weak password requirements in the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) handler of the Besen BS20 EV Charging Station (firmware up to 20260426) expose the device to credential brute-forcing from adjacent-network attackers within Bluetooth range. The flaw, catalogued under CWE-521, results in limited confidentiality impact (VC:L in CVSS 4.0) with no integrity or availability consequences, yielding an overall CVSS 4.0 score of 1.3. Publicly available exploit code exists (E:P in CVSS vector, GitHub PoC at carfeii/besen), though EPSS sits at 0.01% (2nd percentile), and no active exploitation has been confirmed by CISA KEV. Besen acknowledged the report as of April 2026 but no patched firmware version has been released.

Information Disclosure Brute Force Bs20 Ev Charging Station
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.6
HIGH This Week

Weak password policy enforcement in Quantum Networks router QN-I-470 version 6.1.1.B1 enables adjacent network attackers to gain unauthorized administrative access through password brute-force attacks. CVSS 7.6 reflects adjacent network requirement (AV:A) and high complexity (AC:H), limiting exploitation to attackers already on the local network segment. No active exploitation confirmed (not in CISA KEV), but authentication bypass via brute-force is a well-understood attack primitive requiring only network proximity and time.

Authentication Bypass Brute Force
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.3
CRITICAL Emergency

Brute force password attacks against Horner Automation XL4/XL7 PLCs and Cscape software allow remote unauthenticated attackers to gain unauthorized administrative access via network connections. Weak password policies (limited complexity requirements) combined with absent rate limiting enable systematic credential enumeration. CVSS 9.1 (Critical) reflects network-accessible attack with no authentication required. CISA ICS-CERT advisory confirms vulnerability in operational technology environments where PLCs control industrial processes.

Authentication Bypass Brute Force
NVD GitHub VulDB

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