CVE-2026-4638

Plaintext Password Disclosure via VBScript Sensor Error Message in Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Sep 24, 2026
Updated
Sep 24, 2026
Reserved
Mar 23, 2026

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Description

PRTG Network Monitor before version 26.2.120.1449 ships a demo EXE/Script sensor that multiplies two integer parameters using cscript.exe. If a non-numeric value is passed instead, cscript.exe raises a 'Type mismatch' runtime error that includes the offending parameter value in plaintext. PRTG provides a documented placeholder variable, %windowspassword, which resolves to the configured Windows/domain password used by PRTG and can be passed as a sensor parameter.

Any PRTG user who is not restricted to read-only access and is permitted to create sensors (the default for non-read-only users) can pass %windowspassword as an argument to the demo VBScript sensor, triggering the type-mismatch error and causing PRTG to display the plaintext password in the sensor's error output.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.1 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NSEC-VLab

Weaknesses

  • CWE-209 Generation of error message containing sensitive information

Affected Products

ProductVersions
PRTG Network MonitorPaessler GmbH
  • before 26.2.120.1449Affected

References

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