Credential disclosure via weak password encoding
Published Jan 17, 2023 · Updated Jan 16, 2025
Weak password encoding in GE Vernova Proficy Historian 7.0 allows remote attackers with the decryption key to read stored credentials. Public advisories identify weak encoding but do not disclose the credential store, encoding algorithm, or key-handling operation that fails to protect the data. Exploitation requires network access and possession of the decryption key, and the reported impact is disclosure of usernames and passwords.
Summary
What happened
Weak password encoding in GE Vernova Proficy Historian 7.0 allows remote attackers with the decryption key to read stored credentials. Public advisories identify weak encoding but do not disclose the credential store, encoding algorithm, or key-handling operation that fails to protect the data. Exploitation requires network access and possession of the decryption key, and the reported impact is disclosure of usernames and passwords.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-38469
- Published
- Jan 17, 2023
- Updated
- Jan 16, 2025
- Vendor
- GE Vernova
- Product
- Proficy Historian
- Classifications
- CWE-261
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 17, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 16, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=7.0
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