CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-5797
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-798
Description
An issue was discovered in Extreme Networks ExtremeWireless WiNG 5.x before 5.8.6.9 and 5.9.x before 5.9.1.3. There is an Smint_encrypt Hardcoded AES Key that can be used for packet decryption (obtaining cleartext credentials) by an attacker who has access to a wired port.
Affected configurations
• extremenetworks extremewireless wing (>= 5.0 < 5.8.6.9)
• extremenetworks extremewireless wing (>= 5.9.0 < 5.9.1.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials weakness
References
- https://gtacknowledge.extremenetworks.com/articles/Vulnerability_Notice/VN-2018-003 Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://gtacknowledge.extremenetworks.com/articles/Vulnerability_Notice/VN-2018-003 Mitigation, Vendor Advisory