The product uses an authentication mechanism to restrict access to specific users or identities, but the mechanism does not sufficiently prove that the claimed identity is correct.
Attackers may be able to bypass weak authentication faster and/or with less effort than expected.
Threat Mapped score: 3.0
Industry: Finiancial
Threat priority: P2 - Serious (High)
CVE: CVE-2022-30034
Chain: Web UI for a Python RPC framework does not use regex anchors to validate user login emails (CWE-777), potentially allowing bypass of OAuth (CWE-1390).
CVE: CVE-2022-35248
Chat application skips validation when Central Authentication Service (CAS) is enabled, effectively removing the second factor from two-factor authentication
CVE: CVE-2021-3116
Chain: Python-based HTTP Proxy server uses the wrong boolean operators (CWE-480) causing an incorrect comparison (CWE-697) that identifies an authN failure if all three conditions are met instead of only one, allowing bypass of the proxy authentication (CWE-1390)
CVE: CVE-2022-29965
Distributed Control System (DCS) uses a deterministic algorithm to generate utility passwords
CVE: CVE-2022-29959
Initialization file contains credentials that can be decoded using a "simple string transformation"
CVE: CVE-2020-8994
UART interface for AI speaker uses empty password for root shell
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Intro: In 2022, the OT:ICEFALL study examined products by 10 different Operational Technology (OT) vendors. The researchers reported 56 vulnerabilities and said that the products were "insecure by design" [REF-1283]. If exploited, these vulnerabilities often allowed adversaries to change how the products operated, ranging from denial of service to changing the code that the products executed. Since these products were often used in industries such as power, electrical, water, and others, there could even be safety implications.
Body: Multiple OT products used weak authentication.