A vulnerability has been found in Hytec Inter HWL-2511-SS up to 1.05 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component SHA512crypt Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a use of weak hash vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-328. The product uses an algorithm that produces a digest (output value) that does not meet security expectations for a hash function that allows an adversary to reasonably determine the original input (preimage attack), find another input that can produce the same hash (2nd preimage attack), or find multiple inputs that evaluate to the same hash (birthday attack). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Hytec Inter HWL-2511-SS v1.05 and below implements a SHA512crypt hash for the root account which can be easily cracked via a brute-force attack.

The weakness was presented 08/30/2022. The advisory is shared at gist.github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-36555 since 07/25/2022. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1600.001 for this issue.

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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• Hytec Inter

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• HWL-2511-SS

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• 1.05

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