CVE-2026-82453
Plaintext password storage in rust-iot-platform exposes user credentials.
Is CVE-2026-82453 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2026-82453 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 0.28% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2026-82453?
CVE-2026-82453 is rated High with a CVSS score of 8.7. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2026-82453?
Not known from our data. No patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-82453, which is not the same as no patch existing — a fix may have shipped without a tagged reference, or after this record was written. The vendor advisory is the only authority on whether a fix exists, and mitigations may be available regardless.
What does CVE-2026-82453 affect?
CVE-2026-82453 affects iot-ecology/rust-iot-platform (commit 5df942ab6bc46a3bf83dbee8c7970554f92c972d), user model and user listing/retrieval API endpoints. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2026-82453?
Deploy patched release when available, hash passwords (bcrypt/argon2) now, and rotate all credentials.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
User retrieval/listing API responses include plaintext passwords; attackers can harvest credentials for account takeover and lateral movement.
Immediate action required
- affected<= 5df942ab6bc46a3bf83dbee8c7970554f92c972d
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.