CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2023-3243 — ** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** [An attacker can capture an authenticating hash and utilize it to create new sessions

Critical CVSS 9.8

** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** [An attacker can capture an authenticating hash and utilize it to create new sessions. The hash is also a poorly salted MD5 hash, which could result in a successful brute force password attack. Impacted product is BCM-WEB version 3.3.X. Recommended fix: Upgrade to a supported product such as Alerton ACM.] Out of an abundance of caution, this CVE ID is being assigned to better serve our customers and ensure all who are still running this product understand that the product is end of life and should be removed or upgraded.

Severity
Critical
CVSS
9.8 (3.1)
Published
2023-06-28
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-290, CWE-326

Affected products

  • honeywell / alerton_bcm-web_firmware

Matched remediation archetype

Cryptography, certificate, signature, and channel validation

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Check exposure

  • Inventory affected algorithms, key uses, trust stores, certificate validation settings, random sources, and plaintext channels across clients and services.
  • Determine which secrets, identities, signatures, or data protections depend on the affected primitive or validation path.
  • Check debug, compatibility, fallback, and hostname or audience override settings in build and runtime configuration.

Remediate safely

  • Use a maintained platform cryptographic API with approved algorithms, modes, parameters, randomness, and full peer identity validation.
  • Remove insecure fallback and validation bypasses; separate keys by purpose and load them from managed secret storage.
  • Plan rotation or reissuance for affected keys, certificates, tokens, hashes, or ciphertext and document compatibility sequencing.

Authoritative sources

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