CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2024-22432 — Dell Networker security vulnerability
Networker 19.9 and all prior versions contains a Plain-text Password stored in temporary config file during backup duration in NMDA MySQL Database backups. User has low privilege access to Networker Client system could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to the disclosure of configured MySQL Database user credentials. The attacker may be able to use the exposed credentials to access the vulnerable application Database with privileges of the compromised account.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.8 (3.1)
- Published
- 2024-01-25
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-256, CWE-522
Affected products
- dell / networker
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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