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Plaintext Storage of a Password

CVE-2021-1589

Severity Medium
Score 6.5/10

Summary

A vulnerability in the disaster recovery feature of Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to user credentials. This vulnerability exists because access to API endpoints is not properly restricted. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a request to an API endpoint. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain unauthorized access to administrative credentials that could be used in further attacks.

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

CWE-256 - Plaintext Storage of a Password

Storing a password in plaintext may result in a system compromise.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published