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CVE-2018-5469

CRITICAL

An Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts issue was discovered in Belden Hirschmann RS, RSR, RSB, MACH100, MACH1000, MACH4000, MS, and OCTOPUS Classic Platform Switches. An improper restriction of excessive authentication vulnerability in the web interface has been identified, which may allow an attacker to brute force authentication.

Published: Mar 6, 2018 Modified: Jun 17, 2026
CWE-307 CWE-307

CVSS Metrics

CVSSv3
Attack Vector: NETWORK Attack Complexity: LOW Privileges Required: NONE User Interaction: NONE Scope: UNCHANGED Confidentiality Impact: HIGH Integrity Impact: HIGH Availability Impact: HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products (134)

Vendor Product Version
belden hirschmann_rs20-0900mmm2tdau -
belden hirschmann_rs20-0900nnm4tdau -
belden hirschmann_rs20-0900vvm2tdau -
belden hirschmann_rs20-1600l2l2sdau -
belden hirschmann_rs20-1600l2m2sdau -
belden hirschmann_rs20-1600l2s2sdau -
belden hirschmann_rs20-1600l2t1sdau -
belden hirschmann_rs20-1600m2m2sdau -
belden hirschmann_rs20-1600m2t1sdau -
belden hirschmann_rs20-1600s2m2sdau -
belden hirschmann_rs20-1600s2s2sdau -
belden hirschmann_rs20-1600s2t1sdau -
belden hirschmann_rsr20 -
belden hirschmann_rsr30 -
belden hirschmann_rsb20-0800m2m2saab -
belden hirschmann_rsb20-0800m2m2saabe -
belden hirschmann_rsb20-0800m2m2taab -
belden hirschmann_rsb20-0800m2m2taabe -
belden hirschmann_rsb20-0800s2s2saab -
belden hirschmann_rsb20-0800s2s2saabe -

…and 114 more

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-m538-hxpg-3fvh

An Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts issue was discovered in Belden...

References (4)

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 9.8 / 10
EPSS Score 2.84%

Top 15% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 40.1 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub