cve-2023-40544
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-06 21:27
Modified
2024-08-02 18:38
Severity ?
5.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
Westermo Lynx Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
References
ics-cert@hq.dhs.govhttps://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-24-023-04Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Impacted products
Westermo Lynx Version: L206-F2G1
Version: 4.24
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