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A vulnerability was found in Zenoss Core up to 3.0.2. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to credentials management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2014-9251. There is no exploit available. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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A vulnerability was found in Zenoss Core up to 3.0.2 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a credentials management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-255. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Zenoss Core through 5 Beta 3 uses a weak algorithm to hash passwords, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain cleartext values via a brute-force attack on hash values in the database, aka ZEN-15413.

The weakness was disclosed 12/15/2014 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). It is possible to read the advisory at kb.cert.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-9251 since 12/03/2014. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1552 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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

The entries VDB-73250, VDB-73249, VDB-73248 and VDB-73246 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Zenoss

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• Core

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• 3.0.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2

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