PT-2017-17130

CVE-2017-6528

Published

2017-03-09

Updated

2019-10-03

Description by

CVSS 3.1

8.1

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions dnaLIMS version 4-2015s13

Description An issue was discovered in dnaLIMS where it stores passwords in plaintext. The passwords are stored in the /home/dna/spool/.pfile file.

Recommendations For version 4-2015s13, consider encrypting the passwords stored in the .pfile file to prevent unauthorized access. As a temporary workaround, restrict access to the /home/dna/spool/.pfile file to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

H00Die

Mike Cyr

Nicholas Von Pechmann

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials