Description

The confidential information is encoded in hexadecimal allowing an attacker to view it in plain text when decoding it.

Impact

Obtain confidential information by decoding hexadecimal.

Recommendation

Use secure encryption methods to encrypt any sensitive information.

Threat

An attacker from an adjacent network performing a sniffing attack.

Expected Remediation Time

⌚ 30 minutes.

Score

Default score using CVSS 3.1. It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base

• Attack vector: A
• Attack complexity: H
• Privileges required: N
• User interaction: R
• Scope: U
• Confidentiality: L
• Integrity: N
• Availability: N

Temporal

• Exploit code maturity: U
• Remediation level: X
• Report confidence: X

Result

• Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:X/RC:X
• Score:
• Base: 2.6
• Temporal: 2.4
• Severity:
• Base: Low
• Temporal: Low

Score 4.0

Default score using CVSS 4.0. It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base 4.0

• Attack vector: A
• Attack complexity: H
• Attack Requirements: N
• Privileges required: N
• User interaction: P
• Confidentiality (VC): L
• Integrity (VI): N
• Availability (VA): N
• Confidentiality (SC): N
• Integrity (SI): N
• Availability (SA): N

Threat 4.0

• Exploit maturity: U

Result 4.0

• Vector string: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
• Score:
• CVSS-BT: 0.5
• Severity:
• CVSS-BT: Low

Requirements

• 134.Store passwords with salt
• 135.Passwords with random salt
• 185.Encrypt sensitive information
• 229.Request access credentials
• 264.Request authentication

Fixes

• Swift
• Java
• Elixir
• C-Sharp
• Go
• Dart
• Aws
• PHP
• Scala
• Python
• TypeScript

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