CVE-2024-9991Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information Vulnerability in Philips Lighting Devices
- 7.0HighCVSS base score
- 0.15%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 95% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
This vulnerability exists in Philips lighting devices due to storage of Wi-Fi credentials in plain text within the device firmware. An attacker with physical access could exploit this by extracting the firmware and analyzing the binary data to obtain the plaintext Wi-Fi credentials stored on the vulnerable device. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to the Wi-Fi network to which vulnerable device is connected.
Timeline
ID reserved
By CERT-In
- 10 days later
· 10 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CERT-InCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | High7.0 | CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | High7.0 | CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.15% · top 95% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.
Affected products
Philips Lighting (Signify Innovations India) · Philips Smart Wi-Fi LED Batten 24-Watt
- affected <1.33.1
Philips Lighting (Signify Innovations India) · Philips Smart Wi-Fi LED T Beamer 20-Watt
- affected <1.33.1
Philips Lighting (Signify Innovations India) · Philips Smart Bulb 9,10,12-Watt
- affected <1.33.1
Philips Lighting (Signify Innovations India) · Philips Smart T-Bulb 10,12-Watt
- affected <1.33.1
What to do
Solution: Upgrade Philips Smart Wi-Fi LED Batten 24-Watt, LED T Beamer 20-Watt, Smart Bulb 9,10,12-Watt and Smart T-Bulb 10,12-Watt to version 1.33.1
References
References1
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-50270 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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