CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-9991

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Published: Oct 25, 2024 | Modified: Oct 28, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

This vulnerability exists in Philips lighting devices due to storage of Wi-Fi credentials in plain text within the device firmware. An attacker with physical access could exploit this by extracting the firmware and analyzing the binary data to obtain the plaintext Wi-Fi credentials stored on the vulnerable device.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to the Wi-Fi network to which vulnerable device is connected.

Weakness

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere.

Potential Mitigations

References