WEEK ENCODING FOR PASSWORDS_CVE-2026-22543

6.9 / 10

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

Description

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

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-22543

Source S21sec

Published Jan 7, 2026 at 16:10

Modified Jan 7, 2026 at 16:57

Affected Product

Vendor EFACEC

Product QC 60/90/120

Version 8

Affected Versions EFACEC QC 60/90/120 8

CWE Classification

CWE-261

References

cds.thalesgroup.com /en

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