# MB connect line/Helmholz: Generation of weak passwords vulnerability

CVE record · `CVE-2024-45272`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2024-45272`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.5 High
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** CERTVDE
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-1391](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1391.html)
- **Tags:** [Hard-coded credentials](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/hard-coded-credentials.md)
- **Technologies:** [MB connect line mbCONNECT24](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/mb-connect-line-mbconnect24.md) · [MB connect line mymbCONNECT24](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/mb-connect-line-mymbconnect24.md) · [Helmholz myREX24 V2](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/helmholz-myrex24-v2.md) · [Helmholz myREX24.virtual](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/helmholz-myrex24-virtual.md)
- **Published:** 15 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 16 Oct 2024
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: CERTVDE) at 15 Oct 2024, 10:27 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: MB connect line. Product: mbCONNECT24.
  - affected: `0.0.0 to 2.16.2, inclusive` (semver)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: MB connect line. Product: mymbCONNECT24.
  - affected: `0.0.0 to 2.16.2, inclusive` (semver)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Helmholz. Product: myREX24 V2.
  - affected: `0.0.0 to 2.16.2, inclusive` (semver)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Helmholz. Product: myREX24.virtual.
  - affected: `0.0.0 to 2.16.2, inclusive` (semver)
  - Other versions: unaffected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 7.5 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`, from CNA (CERTVDE)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0062, the 49th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 15 Oct 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2024-45272](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-45272)
- [NVD: CVE-2024-45272](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45272)

### References from the CNA

- <https://cert.vde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2024-068>
- <https://cert.vde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2024-069>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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