A vulnerability was found in HCL AppScan Enterprise (affected version unknown) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a hard-coded credentials vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-798. The product contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key, which it uses for its own inbound authentication, outbound communication to external components, or encryption of internal data. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

"HCL AppScan Enterprise uses hard-coded credentials which can be exploited by attackers to get unauthorized access to application's encrypted files."

The weakness was presented 04/21/2020. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-4327 since 01/03/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1110.001.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• AppScan Enterprise

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