CVE-2024-8455 PLANET Technology switch devices - Swctrl service exchanges weakly encoded passwords
Attackers can intercept weakly encoded authentication tokens to recover plaintext passwords, enabling unauthorized access to PLANET network switches.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-8455?
CVE-2024-8455 is a high-severity vulnerability in PLANET Technology GS-4210-24P2S hardware 3.0, published on 30 Sep 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The swctrl service is used to detect and remotely manage PLANET Technology devices. For certain switch models, the authentication tokens used during communication with this service are encoded user passwords. Due to insufficient strength, unauthorized remote attackers who intercept the packets can directly crack them to obtain plaintext passwords.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8455?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Planet Gs-4210-24p2s Firmware, Planet Gs-4210-24pl4c Firmware, Planet Igs-5225-4up1t2s Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2024-8455?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8455 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-8455 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8455 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-2024-8451 PLANET Technology switch devices - SSH server DoS attack
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j5f8-53mj-mghf.