CVE-2022-28170 Information disclosure in Brocade Fabric OS

What is CVE-2022-28170?

CVE-2022-28170 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Broadcom Fabric Operating System, published on 25 Oct 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Brocade Fabric OS Web Application services before Brocade Fabric v9.1.0, v9.0.1e, v8.2.3c, v7.4.2j store server and user passwords in the debug statements. This could allow a local user to extract the passwords from a debug file.

Weakness: CWE-922

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-28170?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Broadcom Fabric Operating System.

How do I fix CVE-2022-28170?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-28170 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2022-28170 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-28170 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-73xq-c68f-h599.