Cleartext transmission of sensitive information in the web management portal of the Tenda RX2 Pro 16.03.30.14 may allow an unauthenticated attacker to authenticate to the web management portal by collecting credentials from observed/collected traffic. It implements encryption, but not until after the user has transmitted the hash of their password in cleartext. The hash can be replayed to authenticate.
The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere.
Because the information is stored in cleartext (i.e., unencrypted), attackers could potentially read it. Even if the information is encoded in a way that is not human-readable, certain techniques could determine which encoding is being used, then decode the information. When organizations adopt cloud services, it can be easier for attackers to access the data from anywhere on the Internet. In some systems/environments such as cloud, the use of “double encryption” (at both the software and hardware layer) might be required, and the developer might be solely responsible for both layers, instead of shared responsibility with the administrator of the broader system/environment.