CWE-522
Insufficiently Protected Credentials
Description
The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.
Hierarchy (View 1000)
Related attack patterns (CAPEC)
CAPEC-102 · CAPEC-474 · CAPEC-50 · CAPEC-509 · CAPEC-551 · CAPEC-555 · CAPEC-560 · CAPEC-561 · CAPEC-600 · CAPEC-644 · CAPEC-645 · CAPEC-652 · CAPEC-653
CVEs mapped to this weakness (1,463)
page 34 of 74| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2018-10355 | Hig | 0.46 | 7.0 | 0.01 | May 23, 2018 | An authentication weakness vulnerability in Trend Micro Email Encryption Gateway 5.5 could allow an attacker to recover user passwords on vulnerable installations due to a flaw in the DBCrypto class. An attacker must first obtain access to the user database on the target system… | ||
| CVE-2018-10327 | Hig | 0.46 | 7.0 | 0.00 | May 17, 2018 | PrinterOn Enterprise 4.1.3 stores the Active Directory bind credentials using base64 encoding, which allows local users to obtain credentials for a domain user by reading the cps_config.xml file. | ||
| CVE-2017-1764 | Hig | 0.46 | 7.0 | 0.00 | Apr 23, 2018 | IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.1.1, and 10.2.2, under specialized circumstances, could expose plain text credentials to a local user. IBM X-Force ID: 136149. | ||
| CVE-2025-12461 | — | Med | 0.45 | — | 0.00 | Oct 29, 2025 | This vulnerability allows an attacker to access parts of the application that are not protected by any type of access control. The attacker could access this path ‘…/epsilonnet/License/About.aspx’ and obtain information on both the licence and the configuration of the… | |
| CVE-2025-10360 | Med | 0.45 | — | 0.00 | Sep 24, 2025 | In Puppet Enterprise versions 2025.4.0 and 2025.5, the encryption key used for encrypting content in the Infra Assistant database was not excluded from the files gathered by Puppet backup. The key is only present on the system if the user has a Puppet Enterprise Advanced license… | ||
| CVE-2026-49349 | Med | 0.44 | 6.8 | 0.00 | Aug 12, 2026 | regclient is a Docker and OCI Registry Client in Go. Prior to version 0.11.5, credentials for a registry may be inadvertently leaked to external servers. A prerequisite for this attack is a malicious registry server, a malicious blob store, or a registry that does not restrict… | ||
| CVE-2026-0715 | Med | 0.44 | 6.8 | 0.00 | Feb 5, 2026 | Moxa Arm-based industrial computers running Moxa Industrial Linux Secure use a device-unique bootloader password provided on the device. An attacker with physical access to the device could use this information to access the bootloader menu via a serial interface. Access to… | ||
| CVE-2025-6081 | Med | 0.44 | 6.8 | 0.00 | Jul 1, 2025 | Insufficiently Protected Credentials in LDAP in Konica Minolta bizhub 227 Multifunction printers version GCQ-Y3 or earlier allows an attacker can reconfigure the target device to use an external LDAP service controlled by the attacker. If an LDAP password is set on the target… | ||
| CVE-2024-51984 | Med | 0.44 | 6.8 | 0.01 | Jun 25, 2025 | An authenticated attacker can reconfigure the target device to use an external service (such as LDAP or FTP) controlled by the attacker. If an existing password is present for an external service, the attacker can force the target device to authenticate to an attacker controlled… | ||
| CVE-2024-44754 | Med | 0.44 | 6.8 | 0.00 | Feb 28, 2025 | Cryptographic key extraction from internal flash in Minut M2 with firmware version #15142 allows physically proximate attackers to inject modified firmware into any other Minut M2 product via USB. | ||
| CVE-2024-34885 | Med | 0.44 | 6.8 | 0.00 | Nov 4, 2024 | Insufficiently protected credentials in SMTP server settings in 1C-Bitrix Bitrix24 23.300.100 allows remote administrators to read SMTP accounts passwords via HTTP GET request. | ||
| CVE-2024-31800 | Med | 0.44 | 6.8 | 0.00 | Aug 15, 2024 | Authentication Bypass in GNCC's GC2 Indoor Security Camera 1080P allows an attacker with physical access to gain a privileged command shell via the UART Debugging Port. | ||
| CVE-2024-23583 | Med | 0.44 | 6.7 | 0.00 | May 17, 2024 | An attacker could potentially intercept credentials via the task manager and perform unauthorized access to the Client Deploy Tool on Windows systems. | ||
| CVE-2023-24047 | Med | 0.44 | 6.8 | 0.00 | Dec 4, 2023 | An Insecure Credential Management issue discovered in Connectize AC21000 G6 641.139.1.1256 allows attackers to gain escalated privileges via use of weak hashing algorithm. | ||
| CVE-2023-23370 | Med | 0.44 | 6.7 | 0.00 | Oct 6, 2023 | An insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability has been reported to affect QVPN Device Client. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow local authenticated administrators to gain access to user accounts and access sensitive data used by the user account via unspecified… | ||
| CVE-2022-41564 | Med | 0.44 | 6.8 | 0.00 | Feb 14, 2023 | The Hawk Console component of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Hawk and TIBCO Operational Intelligence Hawk RedTail contains a vulnerability that will return the EMS transport password and EMS SSL password to a privileged user. Affected releases are TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Hawk:… | ||
| CVE-2022-29833 | Med | 0.44 | 6.8 | 0.01 | Nov 25, 2022 | Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric Corporation GX Works3 versions 1.015R and later allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to disclose sensitive information. As a result, unauthenticated users could access to MELSEC safety CPU modules… | ||
| CVE-2022-36307 | Med | 0.44 | 6.8 | 0.00 | Aug 16, 2022 | The AirVelocity 1500 prints SNMP credentials on its physically accessible serial port during boot. This was fixed in AirVelocity 1500 software version 15.18.00.2511 and may affect other AirVelocity and AirSpeed models. | ||
| CVE-2022-22550 | Med | 0.44 | 6.7 | 0.00 | Apr 12, 2022 | Dell PowerScale OneFS, versions 8.2.2 and above, contain a password disclosure vulnerability. An unprivileged local attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to account take over. | ||
| CVE-2021-36318 | Med | 0.44 | 6.7 | 0.00 | Dec 21, 2021 | Dell EMC Avamar versions 18.2,19.1,19.2,19.3,19.4 contain a plain-text password storage vulnerability. A high privileged user could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to a complete outage. |
- risk 0.46cvss 7.0epss 0.01
An authentication weakness vulnerability in Trend Micro Email Encryption Gateway 5.5 could allow an attacker to recover user passwords on vulnerable installations due to a flaw in the DBCrypto class. An attacker must first obtain access to the user database on the target system…
- risk 0.46cvss 7.0epss 0.00
PrinterOn Enterprise 4.1.3 stores the Active Directory bind credentials using base64 encoding, which allows local users to obtain credentials for a domain user by reading the cps_config.xml file.
- risk 0.46cvss 7.0epss 0.00
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.1.1, and 10.2.2, under specialized circumstances, could expose plain text credentials to a local user. IBM X-Force ID: 136149.
- risk 0.45cvss —epss 0.00
This vulnerability allows an attacker to access parts of the application that are not protected by any type of access control. The attacker could access this path ‘…/epsilonnet/License/About.aspx’ and obtain information on both the licence and the configuration of the…
- risk 0.45cvss —epss 0.00
In Puppet Enterprise versions 2025.4.0 and 2025.5, the encryption key used for encrypting content in the Infra Assistant database was not excluded from the files gathered by Puppet backup. The key is only present on the system if the user has a Puppet Enterprise Advanced license…
- risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.00
regclient is a Docker and OCI Registry Client in Go. Prior to version 0.11.5, credentials for a registry may be inadvertently leaked to external servers. A prerequisite for this attack is a malicious registry server, a malicious blob store, or a registry that does not restrict…
- risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.00
Moxa Arm-based industrial computers running Moxa Industrial Linux Secure use a device-unique bootloader password provided on the device. An attacker with physical access to the device could use this information to access the bootloader menu via a serial interface. Access to…
- risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.00
Insufficiently Protected Credentials in LDAP in Konica Minolta bizhub 227 Multifunction printers version GCQ-Y3 or earlier allows an attacker can reconfigure the target device to use an external LDAP service controlled by the attacker. If an LDAP password is set on the target…
- risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.01
An authenticated attacker can reconfigure the target device to use an external service (such as LDAP or FTP) controlled by the attacker. If an existing password is present for an external service, the attacker can force the target device to authenticate to an attacker controlled…
- risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.00
Cryptographic key extraction from internal flash in Minut M2 with firmware version #15142 allows physically proximate attackers to inject modified firmware into any other Minut M2 product via USB.
- risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.00
Insufficiently protected credentials in SMTP server settings in 1C-Bitrix Bitrix24 23.300.100 allows remote administrators to read SMTP accounts passwords via HTTP GET request.
- risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.00
Authentication Bypass in GNCC's GC2 Indoor Security Camera 1080P allows an attacker with physical access to gain a privileged command shell via the UART Debugging Port.
- risk 0.44cvss 6.7epss 0.00
An attacker could potentially intercept credentials via the task manager and perform unauthorized access to the Client Deploy Tool on Windows systems.
- risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.00
An Insecure Credential Management issue discovered in Connectize AC21000 G6 641.139.1.1256 allows attackers to gain escalated privileges via use of weak hashing algorithm.
- risk 0.44cvss 6.7epss 0.00
An insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability has been reported to affect QVPN Device Client. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow local authenticated administrators to gain access to user accounts and access sensitive data used by the user account via unspecified…
- risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.00
The Hawk Console component of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Hawk and TIBCO Operational Intelligence Hawk RedTail contains a vulnerability that will return the EMS transport password and EMS SSL password to a privileged user. Affected releases are TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Hawk:…
- risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.01
Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric Corporation GX Works3 versions 1.015R and later allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to disclose sensitive information. As a result, unauthenticated users could access to MELSEC safety CPU modules…
- risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.00
The AirVelocity 1500 prints SNMP credentials on its physically accessible serial port during boot. This was fixed in AirVelocity 1500 software version 15.18.00.2511 and may affect other AirVelocity and AirSpeed models.
- risk 0.44cvss 6.7epss 0.00
Dell PowerScale OneFS, versions 8.2.2 and above, contain a password disclosure vulnerability. An unprivileged local attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to account take over.
- risk 0.44cvss 6.7epss 0.00
Dell EMC Avamar versions 18.2,19.1,19.2,19.3,19.4 contain a plain-text password storage vulnerability. A high privileged user could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to a complete outage.