An issue was discovered on Alecto IVM-100 2019-11-12 devices. The device comes with a serial interface at the board level. By attaching to this serial interface and rebooting the device, a large amount of information is disclosed. This includes the view password and the password of the Wi-Fi access point that the device used.
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:
When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses: