CVE-2024-5460 Brocade Fabric OS versions prior to v9.0 have default community strings

What is CVE-2024-5460?

CVE-2024-5460 is a high-severity vulnerability in Broadcom Fabric Operating System, published on 25 Jun 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in the default configuration of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) feature of Brocade Fabric OS versions before v9.0.0 could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to read data from an affected device via SNMP. The vulnerability is due to hard-coded, default community string in the configuration file for the SNMP daemon. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using the static community string in SNMP version 1 queries to an affected device.

Weakness: CWE-798

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5460?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Broadcom Fabric Operating System.

How do I fix CVE-2024-5460?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5460 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2024-5460 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5460 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-f7g3-49j4-ghp2.