CWE-522— Insufficiently Protected Credentials
The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.— MITRE CWE catalog
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CVEs classified under CWE-522page 10 of 36
- CVE-2022-26856HIGHCVSS 8.2EG 8.22022-04-21
Dell EMC Repository Manager version 3.4.0 contains a plain-text password storage vulnerability. A local attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to the disclosure of certain user credentials. The attacker may be able …
- CVE-2022-22554HIGHCVSS 8.2EG 8.22022-01-24
Dell EMC System Update, version 1.9.2 and prior, contain an Unprotected Storage of Credentials vulnerability. A local attacker with user privleges could potentially exploit this vulnerability leading to the disclosure of user passwords.
- CVE-2021-21522HIGHCVSS 8.2EG 8.22021-09-28
Dell BIOS contains a Credentials Management issue. A local authenticated malicious user may potentially exploit this vulnerability to gain access to sensitive information on an NVMe storage by resetting the BIOS password on the system via …
- CVE-2020-1871HIGHCVSS 8.2EG 8.22020-01-03
USG9500 with software of V500R001C30SPC100; V500R001C30SPC200; V500R001C30SPC600; V500R001C60SPC500; V500R005C00SPC100; V500R005C00SPC200 have an improper credentials management vulnerability. The software does not properly manage certain …
- CVE-2019-16371HIGHCVSS 8.2EG 8.22019-09-16
LogMeIn LastPass before 4.33.0 allows attackers to construct a crafted web site that captures the credentials for a victim's account on a previously visited web site, because do_popupregister can be bypassed via clickjacking.
- CVE-2026-39460HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12026-10-09
Usernames and passwords, including the default factory credentials, are stored in plaintext within the configuration file. With administrator rights, the configuration file can be viewed through the CLI or they can be exported from the dev…
- CVE-2026-94611HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12026-09-24
authentik is an open-source identity provider. Prior to 2026.2.7, 2026.5.7, and 2026.8.2, authentik API serializers return stored credentials when an account has view permission on an affected configuration, even when that account is not a…
- CVE-2026-48976HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12026-09-21
HomeBox is a home inventory and organization system. Prior to 0.26.0, NotifierRepository.Update in backend/internal/data/repo/repo_notifier.go updates a notifier through UpdateOneID(id) without requiring the record's user ID to match the a…
- CVE-2026-69805HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12026-09-08
External control of file name or path in .NET allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
- CVE-2026-75960HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12026-08-26
Rently Smart Home versions 20.1.0 and prior are vulnerable to an Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability. This could allow an attacker to retrieve pins including the Master Pin, overriding standard user permissions.
- CVE-2026-39462HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12026-04-24
A vulnerability exists in SenseLive X3050’s web management interface in which password updates are not reliably applied due to improper handling of credential changes on the backend. After the device undergoes a factory restore using th…
- CVE-2025-15617HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12026-03-27
Wazuh version 4.12.0 contains an exposure vulnerability in GitHub Actions workflow artifacts that allows attackers to extract the GITHUB_TOKEN from uploaded artifacts. Attackers can use the exposed token within a limited time window to per…
- CVE-2026-32634HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12026-03-18
Glances is an open-source system cross-platform monitoring tool. Prior to version 4.5.2, in Central Browser mode, Glances stores both the Zeroconf-advertised server name and the discovered IP address for dynamic servers, but later builds c…
- CVE-2024-49364HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12025-07-01
tiny-secp256k1 is a tiny secp256k1 native/JS wrapper. Prior to version 1.1.7, a private key can be extracted on signing a malicious JSON-stringifiable object, when global Buffer is the buffer package. This affects only environments where r…
- CVE-2024-36460HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12024-08-12
The front-end audit log allows viewing of unprotected plaintext passwords, where the passwords are displayed in plain text.
- CVE-2023-26567HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12023-04-26
Sangoma FreePBX 1805 through 2302 (when obtained as a ,.ISO file) places AMPDBUSER, AMPDBPASS, AMPMGRUSER, and AMPMGRPASS in the list of global variables. This exposes cleartext authentication credentials for the Asterisk Database (MariaDB…
- CVE-2020-12734HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12021-07-15
DEPSTECH WiFi Digital Microscope 3 allows remote attackers to change the SSID and password, and demand a ransom payment from the rightful device owner, because there is no way to reset to Factory Default settings.
- CVE-2021-22351HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12021-06-30
There is a Credentials Management Errors Vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may induce users to grant permissions on modifying items in the configuration table,causing system exceptions.
- CVE-2020-8259HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12020-11-16
Insufficient protection of the server-side encryption keys in Nextcloud Server 19.0.1 allowed an attacker to replace the encryption keys.
- CVE-2020-9525HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12020-08-10
CS2 Network P2P through 3.x, as used in millions of Internet of Things devices, suffers from an authentication flaw that allows remote attackers to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, as demonstrated by eavesdropping on user video/audio st…
- CVE-2020-14930HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12020-06-19
An issue was discovered in BT CTROMS Terminal OS Port Portal CT-464. Account takeover can occur because the password-reset feature discloses the verification token. Upon a getverificationcode.jsp request, this token is transmitted not only…
- CVE-2020-11681HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12020-06-04
Castel NextGen DVR v1.0.0 stores and displays credentials for the associated SMTP server in cleartext. Low privileged users can exploit this to create an administrator user and obtain the SMTP credentials.
- CVE-2020-10965HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12020-03-25
Teradici PCoIP Management Console 20.01.0 and 19.11.1 is vulnerable to unauthenticated password resets via login/resetadminpassword of the default admin account. This vulnerability only exists when the default admin account is not disabled…
- CVE-2019-18832HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12019-12-17
Barco ClickShare Button R9861500D01 devices before 1.9.0 have incorrect Credentials Management. The ClickShare Button implements encryption at rest which uses a one-time programmable (OTP) AES encryption key. This key is shared across all …
- CVE-2019-9872HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12019-07-03
In several versions of JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, creating run configurations for cloud application servers leads to saving a cleartext unencrypted record of the server credentials in the IDE configuration files. If the Settings Rep…
- CVE-2017-17691HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12018-09-07
Homeputer CL Studio fur HomeMatic 4.0 Rel 160808 and earlier uses cleartext to exchange the username and password between server and client instances, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a man in the middle at…
- CVE-2018-1139HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12018-08-22
A flaw was found in the way samba before 4.7.9 and 4.8.4 allowed the use of weak NTLMv1 authentication even when NTLMv1 was explicitly disabled. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to read the credential and other details pass…
- CVE-2018-11639HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12018-07-03
Plaintext Storage of Passwords within Cookies in /var/www/xms/application/controllers/verifyLogin.php in the administrative console in Dialogic PowerMedia XMS before 3.5 SU2 allows remote attackers to access a user's password in cleartext.
- CVE-2018-7698HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12018-03-05
An issue was discovered in D-Link mydlink+ 3.8.5 build 259 for DCS-933L 1.05.04 and DCS-934L 1.05.04 devices. The mydlink+ app sends the username and password for connected D-Link cameras (such as DCS-933L and DCS-934L) unencrypted from th…
- CVE-2018-3609HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12018-02-16
A vulnerability in the Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security Virtual Appliance 9.0 and 9.1 management portal could allow an unauthenticated user to access sensitive information in a particular log file that could be used to bypass authe…
- CVE-2017-14711HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12017-11-13
The Kickbase GmbH "Kickbase Bundesliga Manager" app before 2.2.1 -- aka kickbase-bundesliga-manager/id678241305 -- for iOS is vulnerable to a credentials leak due to transmitting a username and password in cleartext from client to server d…
- CVE-2017-3760HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12017-10-17
The Lenovo Service Framework Android application uses a set of nonsecure credentials when performing integrity verification of downloaded applications and/or data. This exposes the application to man-in-the-middle attacks leading to possib…
- CVE-2017-14418HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12017-09-13
The D-Link NPAPI extension, as used in conjunction with D-Link DIR-850L REV. B (with firmware through FW208WWb02) devices, sends the cleartext admin password over the Internet as part of interaction with mydlink Cloud Services.
- CVE-2017-1337HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12017-07-10
IBM WebSphere MQ 9.0.1 and 9.0.2 Java/JMS application can incorrectly transmit user credentials in plain text. IBM X-Force ID: 126245.
- CVE-2017-6528HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12017-03-09
An issue was discovered in dnaTools dnaLIMS 4-2015s13. dnaLIMS is affected by plaintext password storage (the /home/dna/spool/.pfile file).
- CVE-2023-6254HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 8.12023-11-27
A Vulnerability in OTRS AgentInterface and ExternalInterface allows the reading of plain text passwords which are send back to the client in the server response- This issue affects OTRS: from 8.0.X through 8.0.37.
- CVE-2021-43978HIGHCVSS 7.1EG 8.12021-12-08
Allegro WIndows 3.3.4152.0, embeds software administrator database credentials into its binary files, which allows users to access and modify data using the same credentials.
- CVE-2024-46341HIGHCVSS 8.0EG 8.02024-12-10
TP-Link TL-WR845N(UN)_V4_190219 was discovered to transmit credentials in base64 encoded form, which can be easily decoded by an attacker executing a man-in-the-middle attack.
- CVE-2024-50699HIGHCVSS 8.0EG 8.02024-12-10
TP-Link TL-WR845N(UN)_V4_201214, TL-WR845N(UN)_V4_200909 and TL-WR845N(UN)_V4_190219 were discovered to contain weak default credentials for the Administrator account.
- CVE-2024-51240HIGHCVSS 8.0EG 8.02024-11-05
An issue in the luci-mod-rpc package in OpenWRT Luci LTS allows for privilege escalation from an admin account to root via the JSON-RPC-API, which is exposed by the luci-mod-rpc package
- CVE-2024-29941HIGHCVSS 8.0EG 8.02024-05-06
Insecure storage of the ICT MIFARE and DESFire encryption keys in the firmware binary allows malicious actors to create credentials for any site code and card number that is using the default ICT encryption.
- CVE-2022-22998HIGHCVSS 8.0EG 8.02022-07-12
Implemented protections on AWS credentials that were not properly protected.
- CVE-2021-32003HIGHCVSS 8.0EG 8.02021-08-05
Unprotected Transport of Credentials vulnerability in SiteManager provisioning service allows local attacker to capture credentials if the service is used after provisioning. This issue affects: Secomea SiteManager All versions prior to 9.…
- CVE-2020-16134HIGHCVSS 8.0EG 8.02020-08-04
An issue was discovered on Swisscom Internet Box 2, Internet Box Standard, Internet Box Plus prior to 10.04.38, Internet Box 3 prior to 11.01.20, and Internet Box light prior to 08.06.06. Given the (user-configurable) credentials for the l…
- CVE-2018-5708HIGHCVSS 8.0EG 8.02018-03-30
An issue was discovered on D-Link DIR-601 B1 2.02NA devices. Being on the same local network as, but being unauthenticated to, the administrator's panel, a user can obtain the admin username and cleartext password in the response (specific…
- CVE-2024-44815HIGHCVSS 4.6EG 8.02024-09-10
Vulnerability in Hathway Skyworth Router CM5100 v.4.1.1.24 allows a physically proximate attacker to obtain user credentials via SPI flash Firmware W25Q64JV.
- CVE-2023-36476HIGHCVSS 7.9EG 7.92023-06-29
calamares-nixos-extensions provides Calamares branding and modules for NixOS, a distribution of GNU/Linux. Users of calamares-nixos-extensions version 0.3.12 and prior who installed NixOS through the graphical calamares installer, with an …
- CVE-2026-87428HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-10-08
In Brocade ASCG before 3.5.0, a local unauthorized user on the ASCG VM who can issue a request to the SANnav host network namespace can extract stored management credentials for onboarded SANnav instances and compromise connected Brocade…
- CVE-2025-36568HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-04-17
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain BoostFS for client of Feature Release versions 7.7.1.0 through 8.5, LTS2025 release version 8.3.1.0 through 8.3.1.20, LTS2024 release versions 7.13.1.0 through 7.13.1.50, contain an insufficiently protected cr…
- CVE-2025-54808HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82025-10-23
Oxford Nanopore Technologies' MinKNOW software at or prior to version 24.11 stores authentication tokens in a file located in the system's temporary directory (/tmp) on the host machine. This directory is typically world-readable, allowing…
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