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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2012-1348

Medium
5/10

Summary

Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) appliances with software 4.4, 5.0, and 5.1 include a one-way hash of a password within output text, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a brute-force attack on the hash string, aka Bug ID CSCty17279.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • 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