# CVE-2013-3409: The portal in Cisco Prime Central for Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) places cleartext credentials in temporary files, which allows loca

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2013-10-10 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

The portal in Cisco Prime Central for Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) places cleartext credentials in temporary files, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging weak file permissions to read these files, aka Bug IDs CSCuh33735 and CSCuh34230.

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## References

- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-3409

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