CVE-2019-15745
The Eques elf smart plug and the mobile app use a hardcoded AES 256 bit key to encrypt the commands and responses between the device and…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 28% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Eques elf smart plug and the mobile app use a hardcoded AES 256 bit key to encrypt the commands and responses between the device and the app. The communication happens over UDP port 27431. An attacker on the local network can use the same key to encrypt and send commands to discover all smart plugs in a network, take over control of a device, and perform actions such as turning it on and off.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 28% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References5
- https://www.ckn.io/blog/2019/08/27/exploiting-the-eques-elf-smart-plug-part-one/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.ckn.io/blog/2019/08/27/exploiting-the-eques-elf-smart-plug-part-two/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.ckn.io/blog/2019/08/27/exploiting-the-eques-elf-smart-plug-part-three/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.ckn.io/blog/2019/08/27/exploiting-the-eques-elf-smart-plug-part-four/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/iamckn/eques (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-6680 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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