CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2016-2308 — American Auto-Matrix Aspect-Matrix Building Automation Front-End Soluti… security vulnerability

High CVSS 8.6

American Auto-Matrix Aspect-Nexus Building Automation Front-End Solutions application before 3.0.0 and Aspect-Matrix Building Automation Front-End Solutions application store passwords in cleartext, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading a file.

Severity
High
CVSS
8.6 (3.0)
Published
2016-10-05
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application

Affected products

  • american_auto-matrix / aspect-matrix_building_automation_front-end_solutions_application
  • american_auto-matrix / aspect-nexus_building_automation_front-end_solutions_application

Matched remediation archetype

Information disclosure and sensitive data exposure

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Check exposure

  • Trace sensitive data through responses, errors, logs, metrics, traces, caches, exports, files, backups, and client bundles.
  • Identify affected subjects, tenants, retention windows, access controls, and downstream copies without opening unnecessary sensitive records.
  • Review metadata, timing, status, length, and existence signals as well as direct content disclosure.

Remediate safely

  • Minimize collection and output, apply field-level authorization and redaction at a centralized boundary, and return generic external errors.
  • Remove secrets and sensitive data from logs, artifacts, URLs, caches, and client-side bundles; rotate credentials that may have been exposed.
  • Update the affected component and add synthetic-data tests for response, error, observability, and export paths.

Authoritative sources

Complete CVE record and remediation plan

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