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🛡️ CVE-2026-7251

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-259 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Eppendorf BioFlo 320 is vulnerable due to VNC server using a hard-coded password. If a remote attacker knows the network address of any BioFlo 320 model with remote access enabled, they can gain full control of the user interface by using this password. Once connected, the attacker would have full access to all control panel features for the BioFlo 320. VNC traffic is not encrypted.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the 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 high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-7251 is classified as CWE-259: Use of Hard-coded Password. A password is embedded in the product, so anyone with the code or firmware knows it and it cannot be changed easily.

Affected software

CVE-2026-7251 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 26 May 2026 and last revised on 24 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
www.cisa.gov
www.eppendorf.com

Other advisories for this package

unknown has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-259: Use of Hard-coded Password) in other software:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-259
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-26
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-24
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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