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Improper Authentication

CVE-2024-36266

High
8.5/10

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in PowerSys (All versions < V3.11). The affected application insufficiently protects responses to authentication requests. This could allow a local attacker to bypass authentication, thereby gaining administrative privileges for the managed remote devices.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

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