CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-43776

Weak Encoding for Password

Published: Oct 17, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.6
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Eaton easyE4 PLC offers a device password protection functionality to facilitate a secure connection and prevent unauthorized access. It was observed that the device password was stored with a weak encoding algorithm in the easyE4 program file when exported to SD card (*.PRG file ending).

Weakness

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

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Easy-box-e4-ac1_firmware Eaton * 2.02 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References