Administrative changes via hard-coded default password
Published Jan 26, 2026 · Updated Jan 26, 2026
Hard-coded credentials in dormakaba Kaba exos 9300 all versions allow local users with high privileges to alter administrative settings. The U9ExosAdmin.exe application stores the extended-admin default password in multiple code locations and repeats it in locally installed documentation. Exploitation requires local high-privilege access and an installation whose extended-admin password remains at the default, limiting impact to administrative configuration changes.
Summary
What happened
Hard-coded credentials in dormakaba Kaba exos 9300 all versions allow local users with high privileges to alter administrative settings. The U9ExosAdmin.exe application stores the extended-admin default password in multiple code locations and repeats it in locally installed documentation. Exploitation requires local high-privilege access and an installation whose extended-admin password remains at the default, limiting impact to administrative configuration changes.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-59096
- Published
- Jan 26, 2026
- Updated
- Jan 26, 2026
- Vendor
- dormakaba
- Product
- Kaba exos 9300
- Classifications
- CWE-798, CAPEC-70, T1078.001
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 26, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 26, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=All versions, manual mitigation needed!
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Public exploit references
- Extended Admin Mode default-credential demonstrationfunctional · demonstrated
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