WellinTech KingSCADA Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-1977
StatePUBLISHED
Assignericscert
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-05-09 10:33:15 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionWellinTech KingSCADA 3.0 uses a cleartext base64 format for storage of passwords in user.db, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading this file.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.1 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-311 | CWE-255 | CWE-311 CWE-311

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
2.0[email protected]Primary7.1AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
2.0[email protected]Secondary7.1AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
2.0CNACVSS7.1AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
None
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Wellintech Kingview 3.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA WellinTech KingSCADA affected 3.0 Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
404 - File Not Found | CISA af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.us-cert.gov Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-12-129-01 [email protected] www.cisa.gov
Digital Security Research Group - [DSECRG-12-005] wellintech KingSCADA 3.0 - Insecure password encryption af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 dsecrg.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

CNA: Independent researchers Alexandr Polyakov and Alexey Sintsov from DSecRG identified an unsecure password encryption vulnerability in WellinTech KingSCADA application. (en)

Additional Advisory Data

Solutions

CNA: WellinTech has provided the following link to the latest version of KingSCADA: http://download.kingview.com/software/KingSCADA/EN/KingSCADA3.1_2012-04-16EN.rar . According to WellinTech, this new version securely hashes passwords.

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