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VAR-201710-0984

Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2023-12-18 13:14

Infocus Mondopad 2.2.08 is vulnerable to a Hashed Credential Disclosure vulnerability. The attacker provides a crafted Microsoft Office document containing a link that has a UNC pathname associated with an attacker-controller server. In one specific scenario, the attacker provides an Excel spreadsheet, and the attacker-controller server receives the victim's NetNTLMv2 hash. InFocusMondopad is a full-featured touch-screen whiteboard from InFocus

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CVE-2017-14971 (GCVE-0-2017-14971)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-10-09 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 19:42

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root Scorecard

References

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Date Public

2017-10-09 00:00

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