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CVE-2018-16705

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—

FURUNO FELCOM 250 and 500 devices allow unauthenticated access to the xml/permission.xml file containing all of the system's usernames and passwords. This includes the Admin and Service user accounts and their unsalted MD5 hashes, as well as the SMS server password in cleartext.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (2)

Furuno — Felcom 250 FirmwareFuruno — Felcom 500 Firmware

CWEs

References

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