CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-4400

Plaintext Storage of a Password

Published: Sep 13, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A password management vulnerability in Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway (SWG) in main releases 11.x prior to 11.2.14, 10.x prior to 10.2.25 and controlled release 12.x prior to 12.2.1, allows some authentication information stored in configuration files to be extracted through SWG REST API. This was possible due to SWG storing the password in plain text in some configuration files.

Weakness

Storing a password in plaintext may result in a system compromise.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Secure_web_gateway Skyhighsecurity 10.0.0 (including) 10.2.25 (excluding)
Secure_web_gateway Skyhighsecurity 11.0.0 (including) 11.2.14 (excluding)
Secure_web_gateway Skyhighsecurity 12.0.0 (including) 12.2.1 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References