CVE-2026-22543 (GCVE-0-2026-22543)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-07 16:10 – Updated: 2026-01-07 16:57 X_Charger X_Ics
VLAI
Title
WEEK ENCODING FOR PASSWORDS
Summary
The credentials required to access the device's web server are sent in base64 within the HTTP headers. Since base64 is not considered a strong cipher, an attacker could intercept the web request handling the login and obtain the credentials
Severity
6.9 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-261 - Week encoding for passwords
  • CWE-261 - Weak Encoding for Password
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Credits
Aarón Flecha Menéndez Iván Alonso Álvarez Víctor Bello Cuevas
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