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CVE-2018-5261

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-02-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-311

Description

An issue was discovered in Flexense DiskBoss 8.8.16 and earlier. Due to the usage of plaintext information from the handshake as input for the encryption key used for the encryption of the rest of the session, the server and client disclose sensitive information, such as the authentication credentials, to any man-in-the-middle (MiTM) listener.

Affected products

• Flexsense DiskBoss: through 8.8.16

References

• https://github.com/bitsadmin/exploits/tree/master/CVE-2018-5261
• https://github.com/bitsadmin/exploits/tree/master/CVE-2018-5261

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