Paper/Archive/CVE-2023-43870

CVE-2023-43870

Paxton Net2 — When installing the Net2 software a root certificate is installed into the trusted store.

CVSS 9.8 (NVD)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4 Not in CISA KEV+300.0 EPSS percentile 34.7.347 × 206.9 No public exploit+100.0 SSVC exploitation: none+100.0

Description · from the CVE record

When installing the Net2 software a root certificate is installed into the trusted store. A potential hacker could access the installer batch file or reverse engineer the source code to gain access to the root certificate password. Using the root certificate and password they could then create their own certificates to emulate another site. Then by establishing a proxy service to emulate the site they could monitor traffic passed between the end user and the site allowing access to the data content.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource

Net26.02 – < 6.07 SR16.07 SR1CNA

Scores by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NCSC-NL (CNA)8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

References

refpaxton-access.com/systems/net2