{"id":"CVE-2018-15781","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-15781","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:27:23.841Z","title":"The Dell Wyse Password Encoder in ThinLinux2 versions prior to 2.1.0.01 contain a Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability.","description":"The Dell Wyse Password Encoder in ThinLinux2 versions prior to 2.1.0.01 contain a Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability. An unauthenticated remote attacker could reverse engineer the cryptographic system used in the Dell Wyse Password Encoder to discover the hard coded private key and decrypt locally stored cipher text.","published":"2019-02-13T16:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:43:06.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security_alert@emc.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-798"],"affected":["dell/wyse thinlinux"],"epss":{"score":0.00826,"percentile":0.57246,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.83%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.dell.com/support/article/SLN316104","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security_alert@emc.com"},{"url":"https://www.dell.com/support/article/SLN316104","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15781","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}