Gemalto Admin Control Center, all versions prior to 7.92, uses cleartext HTTP to communicate with www3.safenet-inc.com to obtain language p…

published 2019-06-07 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-17680

cvss: 5.3; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 36%
public exploits: 0; none known

Gemalto Admin Control Center, all versions prior to 7.92, uses cleartext HTTP to communicate with www3.safenet-inc.com to obtain language packs. This allows attacker to do man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack and replace original language pack by malicious one.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

gemalto sentinel_ldk 7.92

Exploit prediction

0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD	2.0	2.6	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

n/a Sentinel LDK RTE

Classification

Weakness

CWE-300 Channel Accessible by Non-Endpoint
CWE-346 Origin Validation Error

References

ics-cert.kaspersky.com /advisories/klcert-advisories/2019/06/05/klcert-19-029-gemalto-admin-control-center-uses-cleartext-communicati
third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-8282
NVD CVE-2019-8282

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Summary