CVE-2025-8095

Severity CVSS v4.0:

CRITICAL

Type:

CWE-257 Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format

Publication date:

14/04/2026

Last modified:

14/04/2026

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.

Impact

Vector 4.0

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 CVSS v4.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.10 CRITICAL
Vector: 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

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Attack Requirements (AT): None
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Confidentiality (VC): High
Integrity (VI): High
Availability (VA): High
Confidentiality (SC): High
Integrity (SI): High
Availability (SA): High
Automatable (AU): Yes
Value Density (V): Diffuse
Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Moderate
Provider Urgency (U): Red
Exploit Maturity (E): Unreported

Base Score 4.0

9.10

Severity 4.0

CRITICAL

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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