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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2013-0570

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

The Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) feature in IBM System Networking and Blade Network Technology (BNT) switches running IBM Networking Operating System (aka NOS, formerly BLADE Operating System) floods data frames with unknown MAC addresses out on all interfaces on the same VLAN, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information in opportunistic circumstances by eavesdropping on the broadcast domain. IBM X-Force ID: 83166.

  • HIGH
  • ADJACENT_NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • 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