CVE-2023-3243 describes a critical vulnerability in Honeywell Alerton BCM-WEB version 3.3.X, allowing attackers to capture authentication hashes and potentially brute-force passwords due to weak MD5 hashing. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions. Users are strongly advised to upgrade to a supported product like Alerton ACM as the affected product is end-of-life.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:honeywell:alerton_bcm-web_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.