Insufficiently Protected Credentials in Texas Instruments Fusion Digital Power Designer v.7.10.1



Credit: Gionathan Armando Reale


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# Product:  Fusion Digital Power Designer - Version 7.10.1
# Vendor:   Texas Instruments
# CVE ID:   CVE-2024-41629
# Vulnerability Title: Insufficiently Protected Credentials
# Severity: Medium
# Author(s): Gionathan Armando Reale
# Date:     2024-08-15
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Introduction:
An issue in Texas Instruments Fusion Digital Power Designer v.7.10.1 allows a local attacker to obtain sensitive information via the plaintext storage of credentials.

Vulnerability PoC:

1. Create a connection within the application that requires credentials.
2. Access the file "C:/Program Files (x86)/Texas Instruments/Fusion Digial Power Designer/data/prefs-shared.xml"
3. Notice the credentials stored as plaintext.




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