CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-5261

8.1 HIGH Published 2018-02-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-02-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-311

Description

An issue was discovered in Flexense DiskBoss 8.8.16 and earlier. Due to the usage of plaintext information from the handshake as input for the encryption key used for the encryption of the rest of the session, the server and client disclose sensitive information, such as the authentication credentials, to any man-in-the-middle (MiTM) listener.

Affected configurations

• flexense diskboss (<= 8.8.16)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data weakness

References