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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2008-1113

High
7.8/10

Summary

Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7921, when using Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP), does not validate server certificates, which allows remote wireless access points to steal hashed passwords and conduct man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published