CVE-2018-15781 (GCVE-0-2018-15781)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-02-13 16:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:48
VLAI
Title
DSA-2019-022: Dell Wyse Password Encoder Hard-coded Cryptographic Key Vulnerability
Summary
The Dell Wyse Password Encoder in ThinLinux2 versions prior to 2.1.0.01 contain a Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability. An unauthenticated remote attacker could reverse engineer the cryptographic system used in the Dell Wyse Password Encoder to discover the hard coded private key and decrypt locally stored cipher text.
Severity
7.9 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Dell Wyse Password Encoder Affected: ThinLinux2 , < 2.1.0.01 (custom)
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Date Public
2019-02-06 00:00
Credits
Dell would like to thank Andrew Tierney at Pen Test Partners for reporting this vulnerability.
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