CVE-2024-8449 PLANET Technology switch devices - Local users' passwords recovery through hard-coded credentials
An attacker with serial console access can use hard-coded credentials to reset user passwords on PLANET switches, gaining administrative control.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-8449?
CVE-2024-8449 is a medium-severity vulnerability in PLANET Technology GS-4210-24P2S hardware 3.0, published on 30 Sep 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Certain switch models from PLANET Technology have a Hard-coded Credential in the password recovering functionality, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to connect to the device via the serial console and use this credential to reset any user's password.
Weakness: CWE-798
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8449?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Planet Gs-4210-24p2s Firmware, Planet Gs-4210-24pl4c Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2024-8449?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8449 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-8449 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8449 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in PLANET Technology GS-4210-24P2S hardware 3.0
- CVE-2024-8456 PLANET Technology switch devices - Missing Authentication for multiple HTTP routes
- CVE-2024-8448 PLANET Technology switch devices - Remote privilege escalation using hard-coded credentials
- CVE-2024-8458 PLANET Technology switch devices - Cross-site Request Forgery
- CVE-2024-8450 PLANET Technology switch devices - Hard-coded SNMPv1 read-write community string
- CVE-2024-8455 PLANET Technology switch devices - Swctrl service exchanges weakly encoded passwords
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mc96-c64w-4h74.