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Insufficiently Protected Credentials

CVE-2024-43812

Severity High
Score 8.6/10

Summary

Kieback & Peter's DDC4000 series has an insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability, which may allow an unauthenticated attacker with access to /etc/passwd to read the password hashes of all users on the system.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-522 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials

The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published