CVE-2014-0645

medium

Published 2014-04-17 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.7

Description

EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance (CTA) 9.x through 10 SP1 and File Management Appliance (FMA) 7.x store DES password hashes for the root, super, and admin accounts, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information via a brute-force attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
emc	cloud_tiering_appliance_software	`9.0`
emc	cloud_tiering_appliance_software	`10.0`
emc	file_management_appliance_software	`7.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-255

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.