CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-2272

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Published: Jul 01, 2009 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The Huawei D100 stores the administrators account name and password in cleartext in a cookie, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by (1) reading a cookie file, by (2) sniffing the network for HTTP headers, and possibly by using unspecified other vectors.

Weakness

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
D100_firmware Huawei - (including) - (including)

Potential Mitigations

References