diff --git a/admin/database_updates/2.6.5.php b/admin/database_updates/2.6.5.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5ae8408b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/admin/database_updates/2.6.5.php
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<?php
+
+/*
+ * ITFlow - Database update to version 2.6.5 (from 2.6.4)
+ * Included by admin/database_updates.php - do not access directly
+ */
+
+defined('FROM_DB_UPDATER') || die("Direct file access is not allowed");
+
+    // credential_password was inherited as VARBINARY(200) when 2.0.0 renamed login_password.
+    // What it actually stores is a 16-char IV followed by base64 AES-128-CBC ciphertext -
+    // pure ASCII, the same shape as credential_username (varchar(500)) and
+    // users.user_specific_encryption_ciphertext (varchar(200)). Nothing compares, indexes,
+    // sorts or searches on the column, so binary semantics were never buying anything.
+    //
+    // The width was the real problem: base64 expands ~1.37x, so 200 bytes capped the
+    // cleartext at 127 chars while the credential form offered 350. Anything longer
+    // overflowed and errored the save. varchar(500) matches credential_username and makes
+    // 350 the correct form limit for both fields.
+
+    // Widen while still binary first. If the charset conversion below fails on an install
+    // with unexpected bytes, the column is at least already wide enough and the app keeps
+    // working - varbinary(500) holds the same values just fine.
+    mysqli_query($mysqli, "ALTER TABLE `credentials` MODIFY `credential_password` varbinary(500) DEFAULT NULL");
+
+    mysqli_query($mysqli, "ALTER TABLE `credentials` MODIFY `credential_password` varchar(500) CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci DEFAULT NULL");
diff --git a/agent/modals/asset/asset_add.php b/agent/modals/asset/asset_add.php
index db6c24c4..c6da21ba 100644
--- a/agent/modals/asset/asset_add.php
+++ b/agent/modals/asset/asset_add.php
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ ob_start();
                         <div class="input-group-prepend">
                             <span class="input-group-text"><i class="fa fa-fw fa-lock"></i></span>
                         </div>
-                        <input type="text" class="form-control" name="password" placeholder="Password" autocomplete="off">
+                        <input type="text" class="form-control" name="password" placeholder="Password" maxlength="350" autocomplete="off">
                     </div>
                 </div>
 
diff --git a/agent/modals/asset/asset_copy.php b/agent/modals/asset/asset_copy.php
index 4ed4d4b9..e212a9d3 100644
--- a/agent/modals/asset/asset_copy.php
+++ b/agent/modals/asset/asset_copy.php
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ ob_start();
                         <div class="input-group-prepend">
                             <span class="input-group-text"><i class="fa fa-fw fa-lock"></i></span>
                         </div>
-                        <input type="text" class="form-control" name="password" placeholder="Password" autocomplete="off">
+                        <input type="text" class="form-control" name="password" placeholder="Password" maxlength="350" autocomplete="off">
                     </div>
                 </div>
 
diff --git a/db.sql b/db.sql
index 0d4cadc8..4de0496f 100644
--- a/db.sql
+++ b/db.sql
@@ -934,7 +934,7 @@ CREATE TABLE `credentials` (
   `credential_uri` varchar(500) DEFAULT NULL,
   `credential_uri_2` varchar(500) DEFAULT NULL,
   `credential_username` varchar(500) DEFAULT NULL,
-  `credential_password` varbinary(200) DEFAULT NULL,
+  `credential_password` varchar(500) DEFAULT NULL,
   `credential_otp_secret` varchar(200) DEFAULT NULL,
   `credential_note` text DEFAULT NULL,
   `credential_favorite` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
@@ -3150,4 +3150,4 @@ CREATE TABLE `vendors` (
 /*!40101 SET COLLATION_CONNECTION=@OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
 /*!40111 SET SQL_NOTES=@OLD_SQL_NOTES */;
 
--- Dump completed on 2026-07-31 16:18:11
+-- Dump completed on 2026-08-02 16:18:05