CVE-2024-8453

medium

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.

References

Advisories
References

https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-132-8055-2c361-1.html

https://www.twcert.org.tw/en/cp-139-8056-09688-2.html

https://securityonline.info/planet-technology-switches-face-cve-2024-8456-cvss-9-8-urgent-firmware-updates-advised/?&web_view=true

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-09-30

Updated: 2024-10-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00057