Information disclosure via hard-coded project password
Published Nov 24, 2022 · Updated Nov 7, 2025
Hard-coded passwords in GX Works3, GT Designer3, and MT Works2 allow local users to disclose sensitive project data. The products rely on a fixed embedded password to protect programs, project files, or security keys, but its storage locus is undisclosed. Local host or file access permits unauthorized viewing of programs and project files or execution of programs.
Summary
What happened
Hard-coded passwords in GX Works3, GT Designer3, and MT Works2 allow local users to disclose sensitive project data. The products rely on a fixed embedded password to protect programs, project files, or security keys, but its storage locus is undisclosed. Local host or file access permits unauthorized viewing of programs and project files or execution of programs.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-29825
- Published
- Nov 24, 2022
- Updated
- Nov 7, 2025
- Vendor
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Product
- GX Works3
- Classifications
- CWE-259, T1552.001
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Nov 24, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 7, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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