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CVE-2014-125030: taoeffect Empress hard-coded password

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-01-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-259

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in taoeffect Empress. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to use of hard-coded password. The patch is identified as 557e177d8a309d6f0f26de46efb38d43e000852d. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-217154 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

Affected products

• taoeffect Empress: before 2014-12-02 — fixed in 2014-12-02

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: taoeffect Empress 2014-12-02. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/taoeffect/empress/commit/557e177d8a309d6f0f26de46efb38d43e000852d
• https://github.com/taoeffect/empress/pull/61
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217154
• https://vuldb.com/?id.217154
• https://github.com/taoeffect/empress/commit/557e177d8a309d6f0f26de46efb38d43e000852d
• https://github.com/taoeffect/empress/pull/61
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217154
• https://vuldb.com/?id.217154

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