CVE-2024-8453

Sept. 30, 2024, 12:45 p.m.

Awaiting Analysis
CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

Products

PLANET Technology switches

Source

twcert@cert.org.tw

Tags

CVE-2024-8453 details

Published : Sept. 30, 2024, 8:15 a.m.
Last Modified : Sept. 30, 2024, 12:45 p.m.

Description

Certain switch models from PLANET Technology use an insecure hashing function to hash user passwords without being salted. Remote attackers with administrator privileges can read configuration files to obtain the hash values, and potentially crack them to retrieve the plaintext passwords.

CVSS Score

1 2 3 4.9 5 6 7 8 9 10

Weakness

Weakness Name Description
CWE-328 Use of Weak Hash The product uses an algorithm that produces a digest (output value) that does not meet security expectations for a hash function that allows an adversary to reasonably determine the original input (preimage attack), find another input that can produce the same hash (2nd preimage attack), or find multiple inputs that evaluate to the same hash (birthday attack).

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

4.9

Exploitability Score

1.2

Impact Score

3.6

Base Severity

MEDIUM

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