Vulnerabilities in employee management system could lead to remote code execution, login credential theft

Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Research team has disclosed more than a dozen vulnerabilities over the past three weeks, five in a device that allows employees to check in and out of their shifts, and another that exists in an open-source library used in medical device imaging files. 

The Peplink Smart Reader contains several vulnerabilities, including one issue that could allow an adversary to obtain the administrator’s login credentials and the MD5-hashed version of their password. 

Talos also recently helped to responsibly …

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