Schneider Electric PowerChute Serial Shutdown excessive authentication

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Schneider Electric PowerChute Serial Shutdown. It has been declared as problematic. This affects an unknown part. Executing a manipulation can lead to excessive authentication. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-2402. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Schneider Electric PowerChute Serial Shutdown (version now known). It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a excessive authentication vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-307. The product does not implement sufficient measures to prevent multiple failed authentication attempts within a short time frame, making it more susceptible to brute force attacks. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

CWE-307 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability exists that would allow an attacker to gain access to the user account by performing an arbitrary number of authentication attempts with different credentials on a sequence of requests to multiple endpoints.

The advisory is available at download.schneider-electric.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-2402 since 02/12/2026. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1110.001 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 306551 (Schneider Electric PowerChute Serial Shutdown < 1.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (SEVD-2026-104-01)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (306551). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Excessive authentication
CWE: CWE-307 / CWE-799 / CWE-400
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Nessus ID: 306551
Nessus Name: Schneider Electric PowerChute Serial Shutdown < 1.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (SEVD-2026-104-01)

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Recommended: Patch
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Timelineinfo

02/12/2026 CVE reserved
04/14/2026 +60 days Advisory disclosed
04/14/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
04/16/2026 +2 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: schneider-electric.com

Advisory: SEVD-2026-104-01
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2026-2402 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-2402
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-357370

Entryinfo

Created: 04/14/2026 18:54
Updated: 04/16/2026 02:06
Changes: 04/14/2026 18:54 (66), 04/16/2026 02:06 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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