CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-0525

Weak Encoding for Password

Published: Aug 04, 2023 | 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
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Weak Encoding for Password vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric Corporation GOT2000 Series GT27 model versions 01.49.000 and prior, GT25 model versions 01.49.000 and prior, GT23 model versions 01.49.000 and prior, GT21 model versions 01.49.000 and prior, GOT SIMPLE Series GS25 model versions 01.49.000 and prior, GS21 model versions 01.49.000 and prior, GT Designer3 Version1 (GOT2000) versions 1.295H and prior and GT SoftGOT2000 versions 1.295H and prior allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to obtain plaintext passwords by sniffing packets containing encrypted passwords and decrypting the encrypted passwords, in the case of transferring data with GT Designer3 Version1(GOT2000) and GOT2000 Series or GOT SIMPLE Series with the Data Transfer Security function enabled, or in the case of transferring data by the SoftGOT-GOT link function with GT SoftGOT2000 and GOT2000 series with the Data Transfer Security function enabled.

Weakness

Obscuring a password with a trivial encoding does not protect the password.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Gt_designer3 Mitsubishielectric * 1.300n (excluding)
Gt_softgot2000 Mitsubishielectric * 1.300n (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References