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Unprotected Primary Channel

CVE-2024-50588

Severity High
Score 9.8/10

Summary

An unauthenticated attacker with access to the local network of the medical office can use known default credentials to gain remote DBA access to the Elefant Firebird database. The data in the database includes patient data and login credentials among other sensitive data. In addition, this enables an attacker to create and overwrite arbitrary files on the server filesystem with the rights of the Firebird database ("NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM").

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

CWE-419 - Unprotected Primary Channel

The software uses a primary channel for administration or restricted functionality, but it does not properly protect the channel.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published