Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-22389

Medium

Published: 30 January 2023

Published
30 January 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0013 32.3th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-22389 is a medium-severity Plaintext Storage of a Password (CWE-256) vulnerability in Snapav Wattbox Wb-300-Ip-3 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 5.7 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 32.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Snap One Wattbox WB-300-IP-3 versions WB10.9a17 and prior store passwords in a plaintext file when the device configuration is exported via Save/Restore–>Backup Settings, which could be read by any user accessing the file.  

CWE(s)
CWE-256

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

snapav
wattbox wb-300-ip-3 firmware
≤ wb10.9a17

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.

SC-28 Protection of Information at Rest
addresses: CWE-256

Protection of passwords and credentials at rest forces encryption or equivalent controls instead of plaintext storage.

References