CVE-2026-46488

motionEye (mEye) is an online interface for a piece of software called "motion," which is a video surveillance program with motion detection. Prior to 0.44.0, motionEye accepts the client-controlled meye_username and meye_password_hash cookies as authentication material without server-side session validation. An unauthenticated attacker who knows a target username and corresponding hash can set the cookies manually or cause them to be loaded by submitting blank credentials through the switch-user authentication flow, after which the server authenticates the attacker as that user. The administrator username and password-hash value are stored in /etc/motioneye/motion.conf, which is globally readable by default, allowing a local shell user to obtain reusable administrator credential material. Successful impersonation can enable account lockout, password changes and persistence, data enumeration, data destruction, and data exfiltration. This issue is fixed in version 0.44.0.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/commit/0d5cb9c238a87447dae29812e5bf2ccf323cf3dc
https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/pull/3332
https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/releases/tag/0.44.0
https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/security/advisories/GHSA-r3cw-c95m-wfh9

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-09-15 17:17

Updated : 2026-09-15 17:17

NVD link : CVE-2026-46488

Mitre link : CVE-2026-46488

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-46488

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-256

Plaintext Storage of a Password

CWE-287

Improper Authentication

CWE-328

Use of Weak Hash

CWE-836

Use of Password Hash Instead of Password for Authentication

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