Aptos Wisal Payroll Accounting up to 7.1.5 hard-coded credentials

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A vulnerability was found in Aptos Wisal Payroll Accounting up to 7.1.5. It has been classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in hard-coded credentials. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2024-36049. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Aptos Wisal Payroll Accounting up to 7.1.5. This affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a hard-coded credentials vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Aptos Wisal payroll accounting before 7.1.6 uses hardcoded credentials in the Windows client to fetch the complete list of usernames and passwords from the database server, using an unencrypted connection. This allows attackers in a machine-in-the-middle position read and write access to personally identifiable information (PII) and especially payroll data and the ability to impersonate legitimate users with respect to the audit log.

The advisory is shared at redteam-pentesting.de. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-36049 since 05/18/2024. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1110.001 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 7.1.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Accounting Software

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• Aptos

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• Wisal Payroll Accounting

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• 7.1.0
• 7.1.1
• 7.1.2
• 7.1.3
• 7.1.4
• 7.1.5

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