CVE-2021-40341 (GCVE-0-2021-40341)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-05 21:26 – Updated: 2025-04-10 13:31
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Weak DES encryption
Summary
DES cipher, which has inadequate encryption strength, is used Hitachi Energy FOXMAN-UN to encrypt user credentials used to access the Network Elements. Successful exploitation allows sensitive information to be decrypted easily. This issue affects
* FOXMAN-UN product: FOXMAN-UN R16A, FOXMAN-UN R15B, FOXMAN-UN R15A, FOXMAN-UN R14B, FOXMAN-UN R14A, FOXMAN-UN R11B, FOXMAN-UN R11A, FOXMAN-UN R10C, FOXMAN-UN R9C;
* UNEM product: UNEM R16A, UNEM R15B, UNEM R15A, UNEM R14B, UNEM R14A, UNEM R11B, UNEM R11A, UNEM R10C, UNEM R9C.
List of CPEs:
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Severity
7.1 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-10 13:30 UTC
CWE
- CWE-326 - Inadequate Encryption Strength
Assigner
Hitachi Energy
CNA
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hitachi Energy | FOXMAN-UN |
Affected:
FOXMAN-UN R16A
Affected: FOXMAN-UN R15B Affected: FOXMAN-UN R15A Affected: FOXMAN-UN R14B Affected: FOXMAN-UN R14A Affected: FOXMAN-UN R11B Affected: FOXMAN-UN R11A Affected: FOXMAN-UN R10C Affected: FOXMAN-UN R9C |
guessed | |
| Hitachi Energy | UNEM |
Affected:
UNEM R16A
Affected: UNEM R15B Affected: UNEM R15A Affected: UNEM R14B Affected: UNEM R14A Affected: UNEM R11B Affected: UNEM R11A Affected: UNEM R10C Affected: UNEM R9C |
guessed |
Date Public
2022-12-13 13:30
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.