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Improper Authentication

CVE-2012-2285

Medium
6.8/10

Summary

EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance (aka CTA, formerly FMA) 9.0 and earlier, and Cloud Tiering Appliance Virtual Edition (CTA/VE) 9.0 and earlier, allows remote attackers to obtain GUI administrative access by sending a crafted file during the authentication phase.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Improper (or broken) authentication attacks are widespread, and have accounted for many of the worst data breaches in recent years. Improper authentication attacks are a class of vulnerabilities where an attacker impersonates a legitimate user by exploiting weaknesses in either session management or credential management to gain access to the user’s account. This can result in disclosure of sensitive information, and can lead to system compromise, theft, identity theft, and fraud.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published