# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 30 Sep 2024
- **Updated:** 30 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-mc96-c64w-4h74

## 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 (Use of Hard-coded Credentials)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8449?

It affects 2 products.


Products: 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8456/): PLANET Technology switch devices - Missing Authentication for multiple HTTP routes (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-8448](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8448/): PLANET Technology switch devices - Remote privilege escalation using hard-coded credentials (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-8458](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8458/): PLANET Technology switch devices - Cross-site Request Forgery (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-8450](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8450/): PLANET Technology switch devices - Hard-coded SNMPv1 read-write community string (high 8.6)
- [CVE-2024-8455](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8455/): PLANET Technology switch devices - Swctrl service exchanges weakly encoded passwords (high 8.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-8449 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8449 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: PLANET Technology GS-4210-24P2S hardware 3.0. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8449/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8449/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8449
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8449
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-8449

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8449/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.