CVE-2024-29960
Published: 19 April 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-29960 is a medium-severity Use of Hard-coded Credentials (CWE-798) vulnerability in Broadcom Brocade Sannav. Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 31.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-26934
Vulnerability details
In Brocade SANnav server before v2.3.1 and v2.3.0a, the SSH keys inside the OVA image are identical in the VM every time SANnav is installed. Any Brocade SAnnav VM based on the official OVA images is vulnerable to MITM over…
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SSH. An attacker can decrypt and compromise the SSH traffic to the SANnav.
- 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.