CVE-2023-30466
Published: 28 April 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-30466 is a critical-severity Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password (CWE-640) vulnerability in Milesight Ms-N5008-Uc Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 25.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-34881
Vulnerability details
This vulnerability exists in Milesight 4K/H.265 Series NVR models (MS-Nxxxx-xxG, MS-Nxxxx-xxE, MS-Nxxxx-xxT, MS-Nxxxx-xxH and MS-Nxxxx-xxC), due to a weak password reset mechanism at the Milesight NVR web-based management interface. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially…
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crafted http requests on the targeted device. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow remote attacker to account takeover on the targeted device.
- 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.
Establishing procedures for lost or compromised authenticators addresses weak password recovery mechanisms.