CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-3736

Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format

Published: Sep 27, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.2
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance versions prior to 2.3 contain a password storage vulnerability in the ACM component. A remote authenticated malicious user with root privileges may potentially use a support tool to decrypt encrypted passwords stored locally on the system to use it to access other components using the privileges of the compromised user.

Weakness

The storage of passwords in a recoverable format makes them subject to password reuse attacks by malicious users. In fact, it should be noted that recoverable encrypted passwords provide no significant benefit over plaintext passwords since they are subject not only to reuse by malicious attackers but also by malicious insiders. If a system administrator can recover a password directly, or use a brute force search on the available information, the administrator can use the password on other accounts.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Emc_integrated_data_protection_appliance_firmware Dell 2.0 (including) 2.0 (including)
Emc_integrated_data_protection_appliance_firmware Dell 2.1 (including) 2.1 (including)
Emc_integrated_data_protection_appliance_firmware Dell 2.2 (including) 2.2 (including)

Potential Mitigations

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