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Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

CVE-2018-11421

Severity High
Score 9.8/10

Summary

Moxa OnCell G3100-HSPA Series version 1.6 Build 17100315 and prior use a proprietary monitoring protocol that does not provide confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity security controls. All information is sent in plain text, and can be intercepted and modified. The protocol is vulnerable to remote unauthenticated disclosure of sensitive information, including the administrator's password. Under certain conditions, it's also possible to retrieve additional information, such as content of HTTP requests to the device, or the previously used password, due to memory leakages.

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

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