CVE-2026-50226 Firmware Theft & IMEI Spoofing via Connect-OTA

What is CVE-2026-50226?

CVE-2026-50226 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Acer Connect M6E 5G Portable WiFi Router, published on 4 Jun 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Fixed AES-128-CBC keys inside the AcerConnect OTA application let attackers forge authorization credentials for arbitrary IMEI numbers. This allows unauthorized actors to list catalog items and extract protected binaries from pre-signed cloud links.

Weakness: CWE-321

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-50226?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Acer Connect M6e 5g Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2026-50226?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-50226 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2026-50226 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-50226 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Acer Connect M6E 5G Portable WiFi Router

• CVE-2026-49185 Instruction Injection via FieldX MDM Critical 10.0
• CVE-2026-49190 Missing Per-Instruction Authorization Checks Critical 9.4
• CVE-2026-49194 SCREEN_CLICK Authentication Bypass Critical 9.4
• CVE-2026-49191 Exposed Hard-coded M3WebServer Backend API Key Critical 9.3
• CVE-2026-50209 MDM Server Registration Overriding Critical 9.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-phcf-76rm-q992.