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PLANET Technology switch devices - Weak hash for users' passwords

TVN ID TVN-202409009
CVE ID CVE-2024-8453
CVSS 4.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected Products GS-4210-24PL4C hardware 2.0
GS-4210-24P2S hardware 3.0
Description Certain switch models from PLANET Technology use an insecure hashing function to hash user passwords without being salted. Remote attackers with administrator privileges can read configuration files to obtain the hash values, and potentially crack them to retrieve the plaintext passwords.
Solution Update firmware of GS-4210-24PL4C hardware 2.0 to version 2.305b240719 or later.
Update firmware of GS-4210-24P2S hardware 3.0 to version 3.305b240802 or later.
Credit Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale (ACN)
Public Date 2024-09-30
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