CVE-2024-8455: Planet Gs-4210-24p2s Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The swctrl service is used to detect and remotely manage PLANET Technology devices. For certain switch models, the authentication tokens used during communication with this service are encoded user passwords. Due to insufficient strength, unauthorized remote attackers who intercept the packets can directly crack them to obtain 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)
• Planet Igs-5225-4up1t2s Firmware: affected versions not specified

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