CVE-2023-7237 (GCVE-0-2023-7237)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-23 21:46 – Updated: 2025-06-17 21:19 Unsupported When Assigned
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Title
Lantronix XPort Weak Encoding for Password
Summary
Lantronix XPort sends weakly encoded credentials within web request headers.
Severity ?
5.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-261 - Weak Encoding for Password
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Lantronix XPort Affected: 2.0.0.13
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Credits
Aarón Flecha Menéndez of S21Sec reported this vulnerability to CISA.
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