CVE-2024-8455

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 devices

Source

twcert@cert.org.tw

Tags

CVE-2024-8455 details

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

Description

The swctrl service is used to detect and remotely manage PLANET Technology devices. For certain switch models, the authentication tokens used during communication with this service are encoded user passwords. Due to insufficient strength, unauthorized remote attackers who intercept the packets can directly crack them to obtain plaintext passwords.

CVSS Score

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8.1 9 10

Weakness

Weakness Name Description
CWE-261 Weak Encoding for Password Obscuring a password with a trivial encoding does not protect the password.

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

8.1

Exploitability Score

2.2

Impact Score

5.9

Base Severity

HIGH

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