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Missing Authentication for Critical Function

CVE-2024-8456

Severity High
Score 9.8/10

Summary

Certain switch models from PLANET Technology lack proper access control in firmware upload and download functionality, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to download and upload firmware and system configurations, ultimately gaining full control of the devices.

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

CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function

The software does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published