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Advantech ADAM-5550 Weak Encoding For Password (CVE-2024-37187)

medium Tenable OT Security Plugin ID 505217

Synopsis

The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

Advantech ADAM 5550's web application includes a 'logs' page where all the HTTP requests received are displayed to the user. The device doesn't correctly neutralize malicious code when parsing HTTP requests to generate page output

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Solution

The following text was originally created by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The original can be found at CISA.gov.

ADAM-5550 is currently being phased out, and Advantech strongly recommends all ADAM-5550 users upgrade to ADAM-5630 firmware version 2.5.2 or higher.

See Also

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-24-270-01

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 505217

File Name: tenable_ot_advantech_CVE-2024-38308.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: remote

Family: Tenable.ot

Published: 3/9/2026

Updated: 3/10/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable OT Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-37187

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:advantech:adam-5550_firmware:-

Required KB Items: Tenable.ot/Advantech

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/27/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/27/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-37187

CWE: 79

ICSA: 24-270-01