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CVE-2021-3252KACO New Energy XP100U Up to XP-JAVA 2.0 is affected by incorrect access control. Credentials will always be returned in plain-text from…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 2.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
KACO New Energy XP100U Up to XP-JAVA 2.0 is affected by incorrect access control. Credentials will always be returned in plain-text from the local server during the KACO XP100U authentication process, regardless of whatever passwords have been provided, which leads to an information disclosure vulnerability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 32 days later
· 32 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 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 | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 14% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References3
- https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/alerts/ICS-ALERT-15-224-01 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://twitter.com/Kevin2600/status/1351189347501023238 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://tiger-team-1337.blogspot.com/2021/01/kaco-xp100u-hmi-credential-leak.html (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-2021-26591 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2021-3252)Record last updated .