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GHSA-68MX-C8HG-WJHW

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-11-02 21:31 – Updated: 2026-11-02 21:31

Details

Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll) Admin Android application version 3.0.13 and earlier contains a hard-coded credentials vulnerability that allows attackers to extract production MQTT broker credentials by decompiling the APK's bundled Flutter configuration assets such as production.json and device-command configuration files. Attackers can use the recovered credentials to authenticate to the production MQTT broker over TCP 1883, access messaging topics containing employee attendance records, personal identifiers, Base64-encoded photographs, device telemetry, and authentication material, and publish messages to those topics, resulting in exposure of sensitive data and potential unauthorized message injection.

Severity

8.2 (High)


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

8.8 (High)


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

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CVE-2026-119736 (GCVE-0-2026-119736)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-11-02 19:02 – Updated: 2026-11-03 19:56

Title

Attendo Admin Android 3.0.13 Hard-coded MQTT Broker Credentials

Summary

Severity

8.8 (High)


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

8.2 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-11-03 17:57 UTC

CWE

CWE-798 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Assigner

VulnCheck CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 84/100 over 7339 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://medium.com/@TheWildEye/from-an-android-ap…	technical-descriptionexploit
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com…	product
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/attendo-admi…	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Petpooja	Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll)	Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.0.13 (date)

Date Public

2026-10-30 00:00

Credits

Vyom Nagpal

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