CVE-2018-11639 — Plaintext Storage of Passwords within Cookies in /var/www/xms/application/contro

Plaintext Storage of Passwords within Cookies in /var/www/xms/application/controllers/verifyLogin.php in the administrative console in Dialogic PowerMedia XMS before 3.5 SU2 allows remote attackers to access a user's password in cleartext.

01What is this vulnerability?

Plaintext Storage of Passwords within Cookies in /var/www/xms/application/controllers/verifyLogin.php in the administrative console in Dialogic PowerMedia XMS before 3.5 SU2 allows remote attackers to access a user's password in cleartext.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

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: 2018-07-03T17:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T08:17:08.437Z

09References

• d3adend.org — https://d3adend.org/blog/?p=1398