Common Weakness Enumeration
CWE-656
Allowed-with-ReviewReliance on Security Through Obscurity
Abstraction: Class · Status: Draft
The product uses a protection mechanism whose strength depends heavily on its obscurity, such that knowledge of its algorithms or key data is sufficient to defeat the mechanism.
11 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.
CVE-2020-10277 (GCVE-0-2020-10277)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-06-24 04:55 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:27
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
RVD#2562: Booting from a live image leads to exfiltration of sensible information and privilege escalation
Summary
There is no mechanism in place to prevent a bad operator to boot from a live OS image, this can lead to extraction of sensible files (such as the shadow file) or privilege escalation by manually adding a new user with sudo privileges on the machine.
Severity
6.4 (Medium)
CWE
Assigner
Alias
CNA
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/aliasrobotics/RVD/issues/2562 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile Industrial Robots A/S | MiR100 |
Affected:
v2.8.1.1 and before
|
Date Public
2020-06-24 00:00
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Mitigation
Architecture and Design
Always consider whether knowledge of your code or design is sufficient to break it. Reverse engineering is a highly successful discipline, and financially feasible for motivated adversaries. Black-box techniques are established for binary analysis of executables that use obfuscation, runtime analysis of proprietary protocols, inferring file formats, and others.
Mitigation
Architecture and Design
When available, use publicly-vetted algorithms and procedures, as these are more likely to undergo more extensive security analysis and testing. This is especially the case with encryption and authentication.
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.