CVE-2021-35232
Published: 27 December 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-35232 is a medium-severity Use of Hard-coded Credentials (CWE-798) vulnerability in Solarwinds Webhelpdesk. Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 46.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-21875
Vulnerability details
Hard coded credentials discovered in SolarWinds Web Help Desk product. Through these credentials, the attacker with local access to the Web Help Desk host machine allows to execute arbitrary HQL queries against the database and leverage the vulnerability to steal…
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the password hashes of the users or insert arbitrary data into the database.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Enables users to notice when hard-coded credentials have been exploited for unauthorized access.
Security training explicitly warns against hard-coded credentials, lowering their use in systems.
Policy and procedures prohibit hard-coded credentials in favor of managed authentication.
External identity providers eliminate the need for hard-coded credentials in applications.
Changing default authenticators prior to first use and protecting content prevents use of hard-coded credentials.
Central credential stores and rotation policies remove the need for hard-coded credentials in configuration files or code.
Intelligence programs surface reports of campaigns that abuse hard-coded credentials in products, prompting removal or replacement and thereby reducing successful exploitation.
Planned investment enables secure credential storage and management systems instead of hard-coded credentials.