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CVE-2020-5349 (GCVE-0-2020-5349)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-07-19 21:30 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:56
VLAI
Summary
Dell EMC Networking S4100 and S5200 Series Switches manufactured prior to February 2020 contain a hardcoded credential vulnerability. A remote unauthenticated malicious user could exploit this vulnerability and gain administrative 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
  • CWE-798 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Dell Networking Affected: S4100 and S5200
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Date Public
2020-04-09 00:00
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Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • 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.