CVE-2026-22543CWE-261
WEEK ENCODING FOR PASSWORDS
Medium · published January 7, 2026
What it is
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
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS v4.0
- 6.9 · MEDIUM
- Vector
- 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
- EPSS
- 0.00184 · 7.6th percentile
- Weakness
- CWE-261 · Weak Encoding for Password
- Published
- 2026-01-07T16:10Z
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