Password cracking via low-cost stored password hashes
Published Mar 9, 2022 · Updated Sep 16, 2024
Weak password hashing in affected Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS releases allows attackers to crack local account passwords. In normal non-FIPS-CC mode, PAN-OS creates administrator and local-user password hashes with insufficient computational effort, making recovered hashes susceptible to offline guessing. Exploitation requires privileged access to obtain the hashes from the PAN-OS configuration; it exposes account passwords but does not directly alter data or interrupt service.
Summary
What happened
Weak password hashing in affected Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS releases allows attackers to crack local account passwords. In normal non-FIPS-CC mode, PAN-OS creates administrator and local-user password hashes with insufficient computational effort, making recovered hashes susceptible to offline guessing. Exploitation requires privileged access to obtain the hashes from the PAN-OS configuration; it exposes account passwords but does not directly alter data or interrupt service.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-0022
- Published
- Mar 9, 2022
- Updated
- Sep 16, 2024
- Vendor
- Palo Alto Networks
- Product
- PAN-OS
- Classifications
- CWE-916, T1110.002
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
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- Mar 9, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 16, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=10.0 <10.0.7 changes=[{"at":"10.0.7","status":"unaffected"}]
- Affected versionversion=8.1 <8.1.21 changes=[{"at":"8.1.21","status":"unaffected"}]
- Affected versionversion=9.0.*
- Affected versionversion=9.1 <9.1.11 changes=[{"at":"9.1.11","status":"unaffected"}]
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