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How vulnerability in Brocade Might Affect Major Companies

Broadcom disclosed that few softwares made by Brocade, its storage network subsidiary, is hit by various vulnerabilities, and the exploits can affect the products of various big companies. A similar incident happened with HPE earlier this year.

How does the vulnerability impact?

The Brocade SAN (storage area network) management app is impacted by 9 flaws, the patches are available for these security holes. 

Six vulnerabilities affect third-party products like Open SSL, Oracle Java, and NGINX, these are rated “medium severity” and “low severity.”

A hacker can exploit these vulnerabilities (unauthorised attacker) and modify data, decode data, and make a Denial of Service (DoS) situation. 

The other three vulnerabilities are limited to Brocade SANnav, these are given “high” severity risk and impact ratings. 

The vulnerabilities let a hacker access switch and server passwords from log files, and hack potential sensitive info via static key ciphers.

About the vulnerability

The security flaws (CVE-2022-28167, CVE-2022-28168 and CVE-2022-28166) were discovered internally and currently no use of the exploit in the wild has been found. 

How vulnerability in Brocade Might Affect Major Companies

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