Dataease up to 2.10.18 API Endpoint insufficiently protected credentials

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Dataease up to 2.10.18. This affects an unknown function of the component API Endpoint. Such manipulation leads to insufficiently protected credentials. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-23958. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Dataease up to 2.10.18 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component API Endpoint. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-522. The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Dataease is an open source data visualization analysis tool. Prior to version 2.10.19, DataEase uses the MD5 hash of the user’s password as the JWT signing secret. This deterministic secret derivation allows an attacker to brute-force the admin’s password by exploiting unmonitored API endpoints that verify JWT tokens. The vulnerability has been fixed in v2.10.19. No known workarounds are available.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-23958 since 01/19/2026. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1552.

Upgrading to version 2.10.19 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-4206). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Name

• Dataease

Version

• 2.10.0
• 2.10.1
• 2.10.2
• 2.10.3
• 2.10.4
• 2.10.5
• 2.10.6
• 2.10.7
• 2.10.8
• 2.10.9
• 2.10.10
• 2.10.11
• 2.10.12
• 2.10.13
• 2.10.14
• 2.10.15
• 2.10.16
• 2.10.17
• 2.10.18

Website

• Product: https://github.com/dataease/dataease/

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