Authenticated email credential disclosure via prefilled configuration form
Published May 21, 2024 · Updated Mar 14, 2025
Cleartext credential exposure in Italtel Embrace 1.6.4 allows remote authenticated users to read the email account password via its web application. The email-server configuration editor places the stored account password into the edit form returned in the page's HTML source. Access requires an authenticated account permitted to edit that configuration, and the disclosed credential is limited to the configured email account.
Summary
What happened
Cleartext credential exposure in Italtel Embrace 1.6.4 allows remote authenticated users to read the email account password via its web application. The email-server configuration editor places the stored account password into the edit form returned in the page's HTML source. Access requires an authenticated account permitted to edit that configuration, and the disclosed credential is limited to the configured email account.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-31840
- Published
- May 21, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Vendor
- Italtel
- Product
- Embrace
- Classifications
- CWE-319, CWE-312, T1552.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 21, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 14, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1.6.4
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Public exploit references
- TIM CVE-2024-31840 exploit entryproof of concept · unverified
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