CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-16638

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Published: Jul 16, 2024 | Modified: Mar 18, 2025
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
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An issue was found on the Ruijie EG-2000 series gateway. An attacker can easily dump cleartext stored passwords in /data/config.text with simple XORs. This affects EG-2000SE EG_RGOS 11.1(1)B1.

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
Eg-2000se_firmware Ruijie 11.1(1)b1 (including) 11.1(1)b1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References