What is CVE-2018-16705?

CVE-2018-16705 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Furuno Felcom 250, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-09-10.

How severe is CVE-2018-16705?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Furuno Felcom 250

CVE-2018-16705

FURUNO FELCOM 250 and 500 devices allow unauthenticated access to the xml/permission.xml file containing all of the system's usernames and passwords. This includes the Admin and Service user accounts and their unsalted MD5 hashes, as well as the SMS server password in cleartext.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.016 (72.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

cve@mitre.org (Technical Description, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-16705?: CVE-2018-16705 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Furuno Felcom 250, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-09-10.
How severe is CVE-2018-16705?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.