CVSS 3.1
5.9 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2024-8455
Medium (5.9) in planet. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The swctrl service is used to detect and remotely manage PLANET Technology devices. For certain switch models, the authentication tokens used during communication with this service are encoded user passwords. Due to insufficient strength, unauthorized remote attackers who intercept the packets can directly crack them to obtain plaintext passwords.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 27% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-326, CWE-261
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- planet:gs-4210-24p2s_firmware
- planet:gs-4210-24pl4c_firmware
- planet:igs-5225-4up1t2s_firmware