CVE-2024-8453 PLANET Technology switch devices - Weak hash for users' passwords
Remote attackers with admin access can read unsalted password hashes from configuration files and potentially crack them to retrieve plaintext credentials.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-8453?
CVE-2024-8453 is a medium-severity vulnerability in PLANET Technology GS-4210-24P2S hardware 3.0, published on 30 Sep 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Certain switch models from PLANET Technology use an insecure hashing function to hash user passwords without being salted. Remote attackers with administrator privileges can read configuration files to obtain the hash values, and potentially crack them to retrieve the plaintext passwords.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8453?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Planet Gs-4210-24p2s Firmware, Planet Gs-4210-24pl4c Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2024-8453?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8453 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-8453 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8453 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-5vfc-fcp9-h5q8.