7.5highHigh
CVE-2026-76940
The affected Ebyte device does not restrict repeated authentication attempts through rate limiting or account lockout mechanisms. This could allow an attacker to perform automated authentication attacks against deployments that rely on password based authentication.
What the metrics mean
- It is reachable over a network, without needing local access.
- For an attacker who can reach it, no special conditions are needed to exploit it.
- To exploit it, no account is needed.
- Beyond that, no action by a user is required.
Scoring
- CVSS
- 7.5 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N- CVSS v4
- 8.7
- Weakness
- CWE-307
- Assigned by
- ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov
Dates
- Published
- 2026-08-28
- Last modified
- 2026-08-31
- Sources
- NVD