Cisco Routed Passive Optical Network Cleartext Password Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco IOS XR Software)

CVE-2024-20489
HIGH 8.4

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.14 % · percentile 4 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A vulnerability in the storage method of the PON Controller configuration file could allow an authenticated, local attacker with low privileges to obtain the MongoDB credentials. This vulnerability is due to improper storage of the unencrypted database credentials on the device that is running Cisco IOS XR Software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by accessing the configuration files on an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to view MongoDB credentials.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-256 — Plaintext Storage of a Password
  • CWE-522 — Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Ncisco
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco IOS XR Softwareaffected 24.1.1 ; affected 24.2.1 ; affected 24.1.2 ; affected 24.2.11 ; affected 24.3.1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD