Password disclosure via reversible transfer encoding
Published Aug 3, 2023 · Updated Oct 18, 2024
Weak password encoding in Mitsubishi Electric GT and GOT products allows remote attackers to recover plaintext passwords from captured traffic. The Data Transfer Security function applies reversible encoding to passwords placed in transfer packets, allowing captured values to be decoded. Exposure requires the function to be enabled and a GT Designer3 or SoftGOT-GOT data transfer to cross a network path accessible to the attacker.
Summary
What happened
Weak password encoding in Mitsubishi Electric GT and GOT products allows remote attackers to recover plaintext passwords from captured traffic. The Data Transfer Security function applies reversible encoding to passwords placed in transfer packets, allowing captured values to be decoded. Exposure requires the function to be enabled and a GT Designer3 or SoftGOT-GOT data transfer to cross a network path accessible to the attacker.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-0525
- Published
- Aug 3, 2023
- Updated
- Oct 18, 2024
- Vendor
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Product
- GOT2000 Series GT21 model
- Classifications
- CWE-326, CWE-261, T1040
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Aug 3, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 18, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=01.49.000 and prior
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