CVE-2024-37187 (GCVE-0-2024-37187)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-27 17:25 – Updated: 2024-09-27 18:08 Unsupported When Assigned
VLAI
Title
Advantech ADAM-5550 Weak Encoding for Password
Summary
Advantech ADAM-5550 share user credentials with a low level of encryption, consisting of base 64 encoding.
Severity
5.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-27 18:07 UTC
CWE
Assigner
icscert CNA under the icscert root
CNA scorecard B 75/100 over 342 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Advantech ADAM 5550 Affected: all versions
guessed Create a notification for this product.
Credits
Aarón Flecha Menéndez and Luis Villalba Pérez of S21sec reported these vulnerabilities to CISA.
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