CVE-2018-0375

A vulnerability in the Cluster Manager of Cisco Policy Suite before 18.2.0 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to log in to an affected system using the root account, which has default, static user credentials. The vulnerability is due to the presence of undocumented, static user credentials for the root account. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using the account to log in to an affected system. An exploit could allow the attacker to log in to the affected system and execute arbitrary commands as the root user. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvh02680.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - psirt@cisco.com

Published

2018-07-18

Last modified

2024-11-29

Weaknesses

CWE-798

Affected products

• Mobility Services Engine (Cisco)
• Policy Suite (Cisco)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104852
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180718-policy-cm-default-psswrd