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Description

A vulnerability was found in H3C NX15 V100R017. Affected by this vulnerability is the function change_passwd of the file /api/login/modify of the component Administrator Password Modification Endpoint. The manipulation of the argument newPass results in weak password recovery. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-07-11 | Published 2026-07-12 | Updated 2026-07-14 | Assigner VulDB




MEDIUM: 6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
HIGH: 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R
HIGH: 7.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R
7.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:UR

Problem types

Weak Password Recovery

Product status

V100R017
affected

Timeline

2026-07-11:Advisory disclosed
2026-07-11:VulDB entry created
2026-07-11:VulDB entry last update

Credits

coconut (VulDB User) reporter

VulDB CNA Team coordinator

References

vuldb.com/vuln/377785 (VDB-377785 | H3C NX15 Administrator Password Modification Endpoint modify change_passwd password recovery) vdb-entry technical-description

vuldb.com/vuln/377785/cti (VDB-377785 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA)) signature permissions-required

vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-15479 (CVE-2026-15479 | CVE Analysis and Report) third-party-advisory

vuldb.com/submit/837069 (Submit #837069 | H3C NX15 V100R017 Incorrect Access Control) third-party-advisory

github.com/...lic/tree/main/H3C/NX15R017/pre_auth_pwd_change exploit

cve.org (CVE-2026-15479)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-15479)

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