The swctrl service is used to detect and remotely manage PLANET Technology devices. For certain switch models, the authentication tokens used during communication with this service are encoded user passwords. Due to insufficient strength, unauthorized remote attackers who intercept the packets can directly crack them to obtain plaintext passwords.
Solution:
Obscuring a password with a trivial encoding does not protect the password.
The product stores or transmits sensitive data using an encryption scheme that is theoretically sound, but is not strong enough for the level of protection required.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-132-8059-bde5f-1.html | third party advisory |
| https://www.twcert.org.tw/en/cp-139-8060-f3955-2.html | third party advisory |