Moxa EDS-508A up to 3.11 reliance on security through obscurity

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Moxa EDS-508A up to 3.11. This affects an unknown part. Performing a manipulation results in reliance on security through obscurity. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2024-12297. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Moxa EDS-508A up to 3.11. This affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a reliance on security through obscurity vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-656. The product uses a protection mechanism whose strength depends heavily on its obscurity, such that knowledge of its algorithms or key data is sufficient to defeat the mechanism. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Moxa’s Ethernet switch EDS-508A Series, running firmware version 3.11 and earlier, is vulnerable to an authentication bypass because of flaws in its authorization mechanism. Although both client-side and back-end server verification are involved in the process, attackers can exploit weaknesses in its implementation. These vulnerabilities may enable brute-force attacks to guess valid credentials or MD5 collision attacks to forge authentication hashes, potentially compromising the security of the device.

The weakness was shared by Artem Turyshev. The advisory is shared at moxa.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-12297 since 12/06/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. 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.

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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Productinfo

Type

• Automation Software

Vendor

• Moxa

Name

• EDS-508A

Version

• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.5
• 3.6
• 3.7
• 3.8
• 3.9
• 3.10
• 3.11

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.moxa.com/

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