Mitsubishi Electric AnalytiX Password Recovery password recovery

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A vulnerability described as very critical has been identified in Mitsubishi Electric AnalytiX, BizViz, GENESIS, GENESIS32, GENESIS64, Hyper Historian, ICONICS Suite, IoTWorX, MC Works64 and MobileHMI. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Password Recovery. The manipulation results in password recovery. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-16437. The attack needs to be approached locally. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Mitsubishi Electric AnalytiX, BizViz, GENESIS, GENESIS32, GENESIS64, Hyper Historian, ICONICS Suite, IoTWorX, MC Works64 and MobileHMI. It has been classified as very critical. Affected is an unknown code block of the component Password Recovery. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a password recovery vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-640. The product contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric GENESIS versions 11.03 and prior, GENESIS64 versions 10.97.3 and prior, ICONICS Suite versions 10.97.3 and prior, Hyper Historian versions 10.97.3 and prior, AnalytiX versions 10.97.3 and prior, MobileHMI 10.97.3 and prior, IoTWorX 10.97.3 and prior, MC Works64 all versions, GENESIS32 all versions, BizViz all versions, Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions GENESIS versions 11.03 and prior, GENESIS64 versions 10.97.3 and prior, ICONICS Suite versions 10.97.3 and prior, Hyper Historian versions 10.97.3 and prior, AnalytiX versions 10.97.3 and prior, MobileHMI 10.97.3 and prior, IoTWorX 10.97.3 and prior, GENESIS32 all versions, and BizViz all versions allows an authenticated local user with administrative privileges to unlock the system by tampering with the management file that stores the challenge response. Administrators are able to read and write the management file. But the management file is protected by Windows. As a result, the attacker may disclose, tamper with, destroy, or delete internal information, or cause the affected system to enter a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.

The advisory is available at mitsubishielectric.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-16437 since 07/21/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/15/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1552 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Mitsubishi Electric

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• AnalytiX
• BizViz
• GENESIS
• GENESIS32
• GENESIS64
• Hyper Historian
• ICONICS Suite
• IoTWorX
• MC Works64
• MobileHMI

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• commercial

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