01 Record
CVE-2008-0174
GE Fanuc Proficy Real-Time Information Portal 2.6 and earlier uses HTTP Basic Authentication, which transmits usernames and passwords in base64-encoded cleartext and allows remote attackers to steal
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: certcc
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
GE Fanuc Proficy Real-Time Information Portal 2.6 and earlier uses HTTP Basic Authentication, which transmits usernames and passwords in base64-encoded cleartext and allows remote attackers to steal
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.95% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 80.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-01-29 01:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 07:39Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-01-09
- Assigning CNA
- certcc
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-312Cleartext Storage of Sensitive InformationBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 48c4847857995314b9096516d978975a9971f18dc37ef7d03652095b01c38685
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com20080129 Re: C4 Security Advisory - GE Fanuc Proficy Information Portal 2.6 Authentication Vulnerabilityhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487244/100/0/threaded
- www.kb.cert.orgVU#180876http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/180876
- securityreason.com3590http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3590
- securitytracker.com1019273http://securitytracker.com/id?1019273
- support.gefanuc.comhttp://support.gefanuc.com/support/index?page=kbchannel&id=KB12459
- www.securityfocus.com20080125 C4 Security Advisory - GE Fanuc Proficy Information Portal 2.6 Authentication Vulnerabilityhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487075/100/0/threaded
- www.securityfocus.com30754http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30754