CVE-2015-5610 (GCVE-0-2015-5610)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-07-21 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:59
VLAI
Summary
The RSM (aka RSMWinService) service in SolarWinds N-Able N-Central before 9.5.1.4514 uses the same password decryption key across different customers' installations, which makes it easier for remote authenticated users to obtain the cleartext domain-administrator password by locating the encrypted password within HTML source code and then leveraging knowledge of this key from another installation.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/912036 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75969 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2015-07-20 00:00
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