CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-2366

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory

Published: Jul 19, 2014 | Modified: Oct 06, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

upAdminPg.asp in Advantech WebAccess before 7.2 allows remote authenticated users to discover credentials by reading HTML source code.

Weakness

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in memory.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Advantech_webaccess Advantech * 7.1 (including)
Advantech_webaccess Advantech 5.0 (including) 5.0 (including)
Advantech_webaccess Advantech 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Advantech_webaccess Advantech 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)

Extended Description

The sensitive memory might be saved to disk, stored in a core dump, or remain uncleared if the product crashes, or if the programmer does not properly clear the memory before freeing it. It could be argued that such problems are usually only exploitable by those with administrator privileges. However, swapping could cause the memory to be written to disk and leave it accessible to physical attack afterwards. Core dump files might have insecure permissions or be stored in archive files that are accessible to untrusted people. Or, uncleared sensitive memory might be inadvertently exposed to attackers due to another weakness.

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