CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2018-10024 — ubiQuoss Switch VP5208A creates a bcm_password file at /cgi-bin/ with the user credentials in cleartext when a failed login attempt occurs
Critical
CVSS 9.8
ubiQuoss Switch VP5208A creates a bcm_password file at /cgi-bin/ with the user credentials in cleartext when a failed login attempt occurs. The file can be reached via an HTTP request. The credentials can be used to access the system via SSH (or TELNET if it is enabled).
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.8 (3.0)
- Published
- 2018-04-11
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-522
Affected products
- ubiquoss / vp5208a_firmware
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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