Dell EMC PowerConnect 8024, 7000, M6348, M6220, M8024 and M8024-K running firmware versions prior to 5.1.15.2 contain a plain-text password
Dell EMC PowerConnect 8024, 7000, M6348, M6220, M8024 and M8024-K running firmware versions prior to 5.1.15.2 contain a plain-text password storage vulnerability. TACACS\Radius credentials are stored in plain text in the system settings menu. An authenticated malicious user with access to the system settings menu may obtain the exposed password to use it in further attacks.
- Published
- Aug 20, 2019
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.6% · 49th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-312
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Action score
26
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 26 / 40 · 6.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.6%
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 6.5
- CNA · dell
- 7.2
- 0.7 point gap
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| dell | emc powerconnect 8024 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:dell:emc_powerconnect_8024_firmware |
| dell | emc powerconnect 8024 | cpe:2.3:h:dell:emc_powerconnect_8024 |
| dell | emc powerconnect 7000 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:dell:emc_powerconnect_7000_firmware |
| dell | emc powerconnect 7000 | cpe:2.3:h:dell:emc_powerconnect_7000 |
| dell | emc powerconnect m6348 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:dell:emc_powerconnect_m6348_firmware |
| dell | emc powerconnect m6348 | cpe:2.3:h:dell:emc_powerconnect_m6348 |
| dell | emc powerconnect m6220 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:dell:emc_powerconnect_m6220_firmware |
| dell | emc powerconnect m6220 | cpe:2.3:h:dell:emc_powerconnect_m6220 |
| dell | emc powerconnect m8024 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:dell:emc_powerconnect_m8024_firmware |
| dell | emc powerconnect m8024 | cpe:2.3:h:dell:emc_powerconnect_m8024 |
| dell | emc powerconnect m8024-k firmware | cpe:2.3:o:dell:emc_powerconnect_m8024-k_firmware |
| dell | emc powerconnect m8024-k | cpe:2.3:h:dell:emc_powerconnect_m8024-k |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- dell emc powerconnect 7000 firmwarebefore 5.1.15.2
- dell emc powerconnect 8024 firmwarebefore 5.1.15.2
- dell emc powerconnect m6220 firmwarebefore 5.1.15.2
- dell emc powerconnect m6348 firmwarebefore 5.1.15.2
- dell emc powerconnect m8024 firmwarebefore 5.1.15.2
- dell emc powerconnect m8024-k firmwarebefore 5.1.15.2
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (dell). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Dell EMC PowerConnect M8024-K
- unspecified and later · before 5.1.15.2affected
Dell EMC PowerConnect 7000
- unspecified and later · before 5.1.15.2affected
Dell EMC PowerConnect 8024
- unspecified and later · before 5.1.15.2affected
Dell EMC PowerConnect M6220
- unspecified and later · before 5.1.15.2affected
Dell EMC PowerConnect M6348
- unspecified and later · before 5.1.15.2affected
Dell EMC PowerConnect M8024
- unspecified and later · before 5.1.15.2affected
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Research context
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Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
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No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
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Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-312 · Cleartext Storage of Sensitive InformationCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
nvd-primary
Attack context
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Attack patterns (CAPEC)
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References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.