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Improper Authentication

CVE-2024-42172

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

HCL MyXalytics is affected by broken authentication. It allows attackers to compromise keys, passwords, and session tokens, potentially leading to identity theft and system control. This vulnerability arises from poor configuration, logic errors, or software bugs and can affect any application with access control, including databases, network infrastructure, and web applications.

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

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