CVE-2025-8095

Recoverable obfuscation using the OECH1 prefix encoding in OpenEdge

State: Published
Severity: 9.1 Critical
Published: Apr 14, 2026
Updated: Apr 15, 2026
Reserved: Jul 23, 2025

Description

The OECH1 prefix encoding is intended to obfuscate values across the OpenEdge platform. It has been identified as cryptographically weak and unsuitable for stored encodings and enterprise applications. OECH1 encodings should be considered exploitable and immediately replaced by any other supported prefix encoding, all of which are based on symmetric encryption.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	9.1 Critical	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:U/AU:Y/V:D/RE:M/U:Red	ProgressSoftware

Weaknesses

CWE-257

Affected Products

Product	Versions
OpenEdgeProgress Software Corporation	12.2.0 through 12.2.18Affected 12.8.0 through 12.8.9Affected

References

https://community.progress.com/s/article/Unintended-Use-of-OECH1-for-Password-Secrets-Protection

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