Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-40116

High

Published: 26 July 2024

Published
26 July 2024
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0009 25.7th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-40116 is a high-severity Plaintext Storage of a Password (CWE-256) vulnerability in Solar Log (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 25.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue in Solar-Log 1000 before v2.8.2 and build 52-23.04.2013 was discovered to store plaintext passwords in the export.html, email.html, and sms.html files -- fixed with 3.0.0-60 11.10.2013 for SL 200, 500, 1000 / not existing for SL 250, 300,…

more

1200, 2000, SL 50 Gateway, SL Base.

CWE(s)
CWE-256

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

Solar Log
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

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