CVE-2019-15859

published 2019-10-09

CVE-2019-15859: Password disclosure in the web interface on socomec DIRIS A-40 devices before 48250501 allows a remote attacker to get full access to a device via the…

Priority P1 79 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

EXPLOIT

Password disclosure in the web interface on socomec DIRIS A-40 devices before 48250501 allows a remote attacker to get full access to a device via the /password.jsn URI.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
socomec	diris_a-40_firmware	< 48250501	48250501

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

path /password.jsn↗

• → Send an unauthenticated HTTP GET request to /password.jsn; a vulnerable device responds with HTTP 200, Content-Type header containing 'text/json', and a body containing both 'username' and 'password' fields.
• → Response Content-Type header value 'text/json' is a distinguishing indicator of a vulnerable Socomec DIRIS A-40 device responding to the /password.jsn endpoint.
• → Response body containing both 'username' and 'password' strings from /password.jsn confirms successful password disclosure on the device.

• · Vulnerability affects Socomec DIRIS A-40 firmware versions before 48250501 only; patched devices will not expose credentials at this endpoint. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 10.0 CRITICAL AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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