CVE-2026-105278 PUBLISHED

Grid Protection Alliance openPDC (Docker image) Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Assigner: icscert
Reserved: 05.10.2026 Published: 09.10.2026 Updated: 09.10.2026

The published Docker image for openPDC includes a fixed administrative credential with no forced change on first use. An attacker with network access to the management interface can authenticate using this credential and gain full administrative control of the application.

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	High
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	High
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.3

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Network	Confidentiality	High	Confidentiality	None
Attack Complexity	Low	Integrity	High	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	None	Availability	High	Availability	None
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None

CVSS 4.0

Product Status

Vendor	Grid Protection Alliance
Product	openPDC (Docker image)
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 2.9.477 (excl.) affected from 0 to 2.9.482 (excl.)

Workarounds

Grid Protection Alliance does not recommend production use of published Docker images in any case. The fix for this vulnerability has not been published to the Docker image.

Credits

Shubham Raj (Cipher) of Causal Security reported this vulnerability to CISA. finder

References

Problem Types

CWE-798 CWE