🛡️ CVE-2026-42929 — interschalt-vdr-g4e-firmware

🟠 CVSS 8.3 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-798 NVD
8.3
CVSS Score
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Description

Danelec MacGregor Voyage Data Recorder

includes default accounts with hard-coded credentials.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-42929 is classified as CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials. Credentials are built into the product, so they are identical on every installation and cannot be rotated.

Affected software

CVE-2026-42929 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • interschalt-vdr-g4e-firmware (fixed in 5.250)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 29 May 2026 and last revised on 21 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
www.cisa.gov
www.danelec.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE CWE-798
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-29
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
interschalt-vdr-g4e-firmware — 5.250
unknown — —

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