CVE-2023-40544 (GCVE-0-2023-40544)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-06 21:27 – Updated: 2024-08-02 18:38
VLAI
Title
Westermo Lynx Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
Summary
An attacker with access to the network where the affected devices are located could maliciously actions to obtain, via a sniffer, sensitive information exchanged via TCP communications.
Severity
5.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-319 - Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Westermo Lynx Affected: L206-F2G1
Affected: 4.24
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Date Public
2024-01-23 21:25
Credits
Aarón Flecha Menéndez, Iván Alonso Álvarez and Víctor Bello Cuevas reported these vulnerabilities to CISA.
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