CWE
203
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2017-8055

First published: Sat Apr 22 2017(Updated: )

WatchGuard Fireware allows user enumeration, e.g., in the Firebox XML-RPC login handler. A login request that contains a blank password sent to the XML-RPC agent in Fireware v11.12.1 and earlier returns different responses for valid and invalid usernames. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to enumerate valid usernames on an affected Firebox.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
WatchGuard Fireware<=11.2.1

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