CVE-2024-8453: Planet Gs-4210-24p2s Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Certain switch models from PLANET Technology use an insecure hashing function to hash user passwords without being salted. Remote attackers with administrator privileges can read configuration files to obtain the hash values, and potentially crack them to retrieve the plaintext passwords.

Affected products

• Planet Gs-4210-24p2s Firmware: before 3.305b240802 (fixed in 3.305b240802)
• Planet Gs-4210-24pl4c Firmware: before 2.305b240719 (fixed in 2.305b240719)

Published 2024-09-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.