iTrack Easy mobile application stores the user password in base-64 encoding/cleartext
Priority LOW 34CWE-313Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-200.
Summary
The iTrack Easy mobile application stores the account password used to authenticate to the cloud API in base64-encoding in the cache.db file. The base64 encoding format is considered equivalent to cleartext.
Why it matters now
EPSS 0.00409 35th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2016-6546
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4fv4-f7m5-w88w
References
More iTrack vulnerabilities
- TI-2016-05609 iTrack Easy does not use session cookies to maintain sessions and POSTs the users password over HTTPS for each request CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2016-05608 iTrack Easy's getgps data can be modified without authentication CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
- TI-2016-05607 Improper access control in iTrack Easy CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 5.9
- TI-2016-05606 The MAC address/device tracking ID of an iTrack Easy can be obtained within range of the device CVSS 3.0LOW 3.7
Sources
- CVE-2016-6546 · CVE Program
- CVE-2016-6546 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-4fv4-f7m5-w88w · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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