CVE-2026-119736 Attendo Admin Android 3.0.13 Hard-coded MQTT Broker Credentials
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-119736?
CVE-2026-119736 is a high-severity vulnerability in Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll), published on 2 Nov 2026.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-798
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-119736?
How do I fix CVE-2026-119736?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-119736 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-119736 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-119736 exists.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-68mx-c8hg-wjhw.