CVE-2024-8455
The swctrl service is used to detect and remotely manage PLANET Technology devices. For certain switch models, the authentication tokens used during communication with this service are encoded user passwords. Due to insufficient strength, unauthorized remote attackers who intercept the packets can directly crack them to obtain plaintext passwords.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 8.1
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 0.34%
- CWE
- CWE-261
- Published
- 2024-09-30
- Last modified
- 2026-03-13
Affected products
- PLANET Technology GS-4210-24PL4C hardware 2.0
- PLANET Technology GS-4210-24P2S hardware 3.0
- PLANET Technology IGS-5225-4UP1T2S hardware 1.0
Weakness type
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