Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-4977 - Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in Layton Technology Helpbox 4.4.0

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
layton-technology
CWE-310

Summary

Layton Helpbox 4.4.0 allows remote attackers to discover cleartext credentials for the login page by sniffing the network.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Layton_Technology
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Signature Spoofing by Key Recreation
    An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by exploiting a cryptographic weakness in the signature algorithm or pseudorandom number generation and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.