CVE-2017-6528 — An issue was discovered in dnaTools dnaLIMS 4-2015s13

An issue was discovered in dnaTools dnaLIMS 4-2015s13. dnaLIMS is affected by plaintext password storage (the /home/dna/spool/.pfile file).

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered in dnaTools dnaLIMS 4-2015s13. dnaLIMS is affected by plaintext password storage (the /home/dna/spool/.pfile file).

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2017-03-09T19:59:00.223
• Last modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

09References

• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96823
• www.exploit-db.com — https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41578/
• www.shorebreaksecurity.com — https://www.shorebreaksecurity.com/blog/product-security-advisory-psa0002-dnalim…
• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96823
• www.exploit-db.com — https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41578/
• www.shorebreaksecurity.com — https://www.shorebreaksecurity.com/blog/product-security-advisory-psa0002-dnalim…