CVE-2018-5261

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 8.1 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-02-02

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-311

Affected products

• Diskboss (Flexense)

References

• https://github.com/bitsadmin/exploits/tree/master/CVE-2018-5261