Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-8453 - Use of a One-Way Hash without a Salt vulnerability in Planet Gs-4210-24P2S Firmware and Gs-4210-24Pl4C Firmware

047910
CVSS 4.9 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
HIGH
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
planet
CWE-759

Summary

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.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)