Vulnerability · Published Dec 19, 2023 · Assigned by NCSC-NL
CVE-2023-43870
High 8.1
In plain English
A high-severity hard-coded credentials in Net2 from Paxton. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 35% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
When installing the Net2 software a root certificate is installed into the trusted store. A potential hacker could access the installer batch file or reverse engineer the source code to gain access to the root certificate password. Using the root certificate and password they could then create their own certificates to emulate another site. Then by establishing a proxy service to emulate the site they could monitor traffic passed between the end user and the site allowing access to the data content.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-798 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
References
- Paxton Net2 Product Page product