CVE-2023-40544 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An attacker with access to the network where the affected devices are located could maliciously actions to obtain, via a sniffer, sensitive information exchanged via TCP communications.

Published: 2024-02-06

Score: 5.7 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

No analysis available yet.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Westermo

Lynx

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`L206-F2G1`	affected	—
`4.24`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:o:westermo:l206-f2g_firmware:4.24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:h:westermo:l206-f2g:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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No data available yet.

Remediation

Vendor Workaround

Westermo recommends following best practices for hardening, such as restricting access, disable unused services (attack surface reduction), etc., to mitigate the reported vulnerabilities.

Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-45115	An attacker with access to the network where the affected devices are located could maliciously actions to obtain, via a sniffer, sensitive information exchanged via TCP communications.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Adjacent Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00017.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-24-023-04

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Westermo L206-f2g L206-f2g Firmware

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: icscert

Published: 2024-02-06T21:27:00.798Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T18:38:50.381Z

Reserved: 2023-10-12T20:21:27.757Z

Link: CVE-2023-40544

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T18:38:50.381Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-02-06T22:16:13.337

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:19:41.167

Link: CVE-2023-40544

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-319

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