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Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

CVE-2023-23130

Severity Medium
Score 5.9/10

Summary

Connectwise Automate 2022.11 is vulnerable to Cleartext authentication. Authentication is being done via HTTP (cleartext) with SSL disabled. OTE: the vendor's position is that, by design, this is controlled by a configuration option in which a customer can choose to use HTTP (rather than HTTPS) during troubleshooting.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-319 - Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

The software transmits sensitive or security-critical data in cleartext in a communication channel that can be sniffed by unauthorized actors.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published