Plaintext Password in Registry

published 2023-04-27 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-33834

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 23%
public exploits: 0; none known

vulnerability in 42gears surelock windows surelockwinsetupv2.40.0.Exe on Windows (Registery modules) allows Retrieve

Admin user credentials

This issue affects surelock windows: from 2.3.12 through 2.40.0.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 21 mo ago (2025-01-30)

Exploit prediction

0.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 23% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

42gears surelock windows

Classification

Weakness

CWE-314 Cleartext Storage in the Registry
CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

42gears.com /security-and-compliance/
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2023-2335
NVD CVE-2023-2335

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Summary