Cisco ATA up to 11.2.4 Web-based Management Interface password recoverable

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Cisco ATA up to 11.2.4. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Web-based Management Interface. Such manipulation leads to password recoverable. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-20462. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco ATA up to 11.2.4 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Web-based Management Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a password recoverable vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-257. The storage of passwords in a recoverable format makes them subject to password reuse attacks by malicious users. In fact, it should be noted that recoverable encrypted passwords provide no significant benefit over plaintext passwords since they are subject not only to reuse by malicious attackers but also by malicious insiders. If a system administrator can recover a password directly, or use a brute force search on the available information, the administrator can use the password on other accounts. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco ATA 190 Series Multiplatform Analog Telephone Adapter firmware could allow an authenticated, local attacker with low privileges to view passwords on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to incorrect sanitization of HTML content from an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to view passwords that belong to other users.

The advisory is available at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-20462 since 11/08/2023. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1552 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• ATA

Version

• 11.1.0
• 11.1.0 MSR1
• 11.1.0 MSR2
• 11.1.0 MSR3
• 11.1.0 MSR4
• 11.2.1
• 11.2.2
• 11.2.2 MSR1
• 11.2.3
• 11.2.4

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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