CVE-2024-8453

PLANET Technology switch devices - Weak hash for users' passwords

State: Published
Severity: 4.9 Medium
Published: Sep 30, 2024
Updated: Sep 30, 2024
Reserved: Sep 5, 2024

Description

Certain switch models from PLANET Technology use an insecure hashing function to hash user passwords without being salted. Remote attackers with administrator privileges can read configuration files to obtain the hash values, and potentially crack them to retrieve the plaintext passwords.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.9 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	twcert

Weaknesses

CWE-328 Use of Weak Hash
CWE-759 Use of a One-Way Hash without a Salt

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GS-4210-24PL4C hardware 2.0PLANET Technology	before 2.305b240719Affected
GS-4210-24P2S hardware 3.0PLANET Technology	before 3.305b240802Affected

References

https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-132-8055-2c361-1.htmlthird-party-advisory
https://www.twcert.org.tw/en/cp-139-8056-09688-2.htmlthird-party-advisory

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