CWE-326 448 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-326: Inadequate Encryption Strength

Overview

CWE-326 (Inadequate Encryption Strength) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

The product stores or transmits sensitive data using an encryption scheme that is theoretically sound, but is not strong enough for the level of protection required.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2026-41860 2026-06-04 CWE-326 in BOSH allows a local attacker to steal Basic-auth credentials or redirect UAA token requests via MITM. HttpRequestHelper#create_async_endpoint and #send_http_get_request_synchronous hard-cod…
CVE-2026-8878 2026-06-03 Version 3.0.7 of the Securly Chrome Extension exposes multiple publicly accessible endpoints that allow unauthenticated access to sensitive data. The exposed information consists of SHA-1 hashes that …
CVE-2026-45787 2026-05-28 electerm is an open-sourced terminal/ssh/sftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice/ftp client. Prior to 3.9.5, deterministic AES-192-CBC with a fixed zero IV, constant KDF salt, and no MAC leads to confide…
CVE-2026-44523 2026-05-14 Note Mark is an open-source note-taking application. Prior to 0.19.4, no minimum length or entropy is enforced on the JWT_SECRET configuration value. The application accepts any base64-decodable secre…
CVE-2026-44351 2026-05-13 fast-jwt provides fast JSON Web Token (JWT) implementation. Prior to 6.2.4, a critical authentication-bypass vulnerability in fast-jwt's async key-resolver flow allows any unauthenticated attacker to …
CVE-2026-33361 2026-05-11 In Meari IoT SDK image handling (libmrplayer.so) as observed in CloudEdge 5.5.0 (build 220), Arenti 1.8.1 (build 220), and related white-label apps (<= 1.8.x), baby monitor ".jpgx3" files use reversib…
CVE-2018-25272 2026-04-22 ELBA5 5.8.0 contains a remote code execution vulnerability that allows attackers to obtain database credentials and execute arbitrary commands with SYSTEM level permissions. Attackers can connect to t…
CVE-2025-1241 2026-04-21 Encrypted values in Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT prior to version 7.10.0 and GoAnywhere Agents prior to version 2.2.0 utilize a static IV which allows admin users to brute-force decryption of data.
CVE-2026-5363 2026-04-16 Inadequate Encryption Strength vulnerability in TP-Link Archer C7 v5 and v5.8 (uhttpd modules) allows Password Recovery Exploitation. The web interface encrypts the admin password client-side using RS…
CVE-2026-5889 2026-04-08 Cryptographic Flaw in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 147.0.7727.55 allowed an attacker to read potentially sensitive information from encrypted PDFs via a brute-force attack. (Chromium security seve…
CVE-2026-39349 2026-04-07 OrangeHRM is a comprehensive human resource management (HRM) system. From 5.0 to 5.8, OrangeHRM Open Source encrypts certain sensitive fields with AES in ECB mode, which preserves block-aligned plaint…
CVE-2026-28377 2026-03-26 A vulnerability in Grafana Tempo exposes the S3 SSE-C encryption key in plaintext through the /status/config endpoint, potentially allowing unauthorized users to obtain the key used to encrypt trace d…
CVE-2026-33512 2026-03-23 WWBN AVideo is an open source video platform. In versions up to and including 26.0, the API plugin exposes a `decryptString` action without any authentication. Anyone can submit ciphertext and receive…
CVE-2026-33488 2026-03-23 WWBN AVideo is an open source video platform. In versions up to and including 26.0, the `createKeys()` function in the LoginControl plugin's PGP 2FA system generates 512-bit RSA keys, which have been …
CVE-2025-36379 2026-02-17 IBM Security QRadar EDR 3.12 through 3.12.23 IBM Security ReaQta uses weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms that could allow an attacker to decrypt highly sensitive information.
CVE-2025-68703 2026-01-13 Jervis is a library for Job DSL plugin scripts and shared Jenkins pipeline libraries. Prior to 2.2, the salt is derived from sha256Sum(passphrase). Two encryption operations with the same password wil…
CVE-2026-0510 2026-01-13 The User Management Engine (UME) in NetWeaver Application Server for Java (NW AS Java) utilizes an obsolete cryptographic algorithm for encrypting User Mapping data. This weakness could allow an attac…
CVE-2025-65295 2025-12-10 Multiple vulnerabilities in Aqara Hub firmware update process in the Camera Hub G3 4.1.9_0027, Hub M2 4.3.6_0027, and Hub M3 4.3.6_0025 devices, allow attackers to install malicious firmware without p…
CVE-2025-41743 2025-12-02 Insufficient encryption strength in Sprecher Automation SPRECON-E-C, SPRECON-E-P, and SPRECON-E-T3 allows a local unprivileged attacker to extract data from update images and thus obtain limited infor…
CVE-2025-11935 2025-11-21 With TLS 1.3 pre-shared key (PSK) a malicious or faulty server could ignore the request for PFS (perfect forward secrecy) and the client would continue on with the connection using PSK without PFS. Th…

Previous names

  • Weak Encryption (2009-07-27)

Content submission

Name
PLOVER
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-08-15 1.0 Suggested OWASP Top Ten 2004 mapping
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Maintenance_Notes, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2009-03-10 CWE Content Team 1.3 updated Relationships
2009-05-27 CWE Content Team 1.4 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2009-07-08 CWE Content Team 1.5 Critical Clarified entry to focus on algorithms that do not have major weaknesses, but may not be strong enough for some purposes.
2009-07-27 CWE Content Team 1.5 updated Common_Consequences, Description, Maintenance_Notes, Name
2009-10-29 CWE Content Team 1.6 updated Relationships
2010-02-16 CWE Content Team 1.8 updated References
2010-06-21 CWE Content Team 1.9 updated Relationships
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated References, Relationships
2013-07-17 CWE Content Team 2.5 updated Relationships
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships
2015-12-07 CWE Content Team 2.9 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Modes_of_Introduction, References, Relationships
2018-03-27 CWE Content Team 3.1 updated References, Relationships
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2019-06-20 CWE Content Team 3.3 updated Relationships
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Maintenance_Notes, Potential_Mitigations, Relationships
2021-10-28 CWE Content Team 4.6 updated Relationships
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description, Relationships
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Detection_Factors, Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Relationships, Weakness_Ordinalities
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