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Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2025-11-18 12:32

An issue was discovered on Alecto IVM-100 2019-11-12 devices. The device comes with a serial interface at the board level. By attaching to this serial interface and rebooting the device, a large amount of information is disclosed. This includes the view password and the password of the Wi-Fi access point that the device used.

[Vulnerability Type] Incorrect Access Control

[Vendor of Product] Alecto

[Affected Product Code Base] Alecto IVM-100 - unknown.

[Attack Type] Physical

[Impact Information Disclosure] true

[Attack Vectors] An attacker needs to open up the device and physically attach wires as well as reboot the device.

[Has vendor confirmed or acknowledged the vulnerability?] true

[Discoverer] Willem Westerhof, Jasper Nota, Martijn Baalman from Qbit cyber security in cooperation with The Dutch consumer organisation

[Reference] https://www.alecto.nl

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CVE-2019-20462 (GCVE-0-2019-20462)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-07 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 17:12

Summary

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-11-08 16:54 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2325 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://www.alecto.nl
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/14	mailing-list
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/14

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