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CVE-2008-0174 (GCVE-0-2008-0174)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-01-29 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 07:39
VLAI
Summary
GE Fanuc Proficy Real-Time Information Portal 2.6 and earlier uses HTTP Basic Authentication, which transmits usernames and passwords in base64-encoded cleartext and allows remote attackers to steal the passwords and gain privileges.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/180876 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3590 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019273 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://support.gefanuc.com/support/index?page=kbc… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487075/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30754 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2008-01-25 00:00
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  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.