User impersonation via trusted client-side password hashes
Published Sep 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 15, 2026
Authentication bypass in motionEye before 0.44.0 allows remote attackers with a known username and password hash to impersonate that user. The server trusts the client-controlled meye_username and meye_password_hash cookies without validating a server-side session, including cookies loaded through the blank-credential switch-user flow. Exploitation requires the target user's hash; a local shell user can read the administrator hash from the globally readable default configuration, enabling account changes and camera-data access or deletion.
Summary
What happened
Authentication bypass in motionEye before 0.44.0 allows remote attackers with a known username and password hash to impersonate that user. The server trusts the client-controlled meye_username and meye_password_hash cookies without validating a server-side session, including cookies loaded through the blank-credential switch-user flow. Exploitation requires the target user's hash; a local shell user can read the administrator hash from the globally readable default configuration, enabling account changes and camera-data access or deletion.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-46488
- Published
- Sep 15, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 15, 2026
- Vendor
- motioneye-project
- Product
- motionEye
- Classifications
- CWE-328, CWE-287, CWE-836, CWE-256, T1550.002
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 15, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 15, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=< 0.44.0
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Public exploit references
- Client-controlled cookie authentication proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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