CVE-2024-36440

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-327 Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

Publication date:

22/08/2024

Last modified:

15/04/2026

Description

An issue was discovered on Swissphone DiCal-RED 4009 devices. An attacker with access to the file /etc/deviceconfig may recover the administrative device password via password-cracking methods, because unsalted MD5 is used.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

6.80

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://www.swissphone.com/en-us/solutions/components/terminals/radio-data-module-dical-red/
https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2024-037.txt
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Aug/31