CVE-2024-36497
Unhashed Storage of Password
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- SEC-VLab
Description
The decrypted configuration file contains the password in cleartext which is used to configure WINSelect. It can be used to remove the existing restrictions and disable WINSelect entirely.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By SEC-VLab
- 26 days later
· 26 days later
Published
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.46% · top 60% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.
Weakness
Affected products
Faronics · WINSelect (Standard + Enterprise)
- unaffected 8.30.xx.903
What to do
Solution: The vendor provides a patched version 8.30.xx.903 since May 2024 which can be downloaded from the following URL: https://www.faronics.com/document-library/document/download-winselect-standard The vendor provided the following changelog: https://www.faronics.com/en-uk/document-library/document/winselect-standard-release-notes
References (3)
- https://r.sec-consult.com/winselect (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_transferred
- https://www.faronics.com/en-uk/document-library/document/winselect-standard-release-notes (opens in a new tab)release-notesx_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jun/12 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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