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VAR-202004-1843

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

MikroTik WinBox 3.22 and below stores the user's cleartext password in the settings.cfg.viw configuration file when the Keep Password field is set and no Master Password is set. Keep Password is set by default and, by default Master Password is not set. An attacker with access to the configuration file can extract a username and password to gain access to the router. MikroTik WinBox Exists in an inadequate protection of credentials.Information may be obtained. MikroTik WinBox could allow a local malicious user to obtain sensitive information, caused by the storage of user credentials in plain-text in the settings.cfg.viw configuration file

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CVE-2020-5721 (GCVE-0-2020-5721)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-04-15 20:50 – Updated: 2024-08-04 08:39

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-260

Assigner

tenable mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-23	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	MikroTik WinBox	Affected: 3.22 and below

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    "datePublished": "2020-04-15T20:50:45.000Z",
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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

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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.

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