CVE-2018-6433 Missing authorization in Brocade Fabric OS

What is CVE-2018-6433?

CVE-2018-6433 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Broadcom Fabric Operating System, published on 8 Nov 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in the secryptocfg export command of Brocade Fabric OS versions before 8.2.1, 8.1.2f, 8.0.2f, 7.4.2d could allow a local attacker to bypass the export file access restrictions and initiate a file copy from the source to a remote system.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-6433?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Broadcom Fabric Operating System.

How do I fix CVE-2018-6433?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-6433 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2018-6433 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-6433 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Broadcom Fabric Operating System

• CVE-2025-1976 Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS Code Injection Exploited High 8.6
• CVE-2021-22555 Linux Kernel Heap Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.3
• CVE-2022-33186 Command injection in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-27797 Hardcoded credentials in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-15371 Code injection in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8

All Broadcom Fabric Operating System vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hwmr-2mph-c98v.