Cisco Policy Suite up to 18.1.x Cluster Manager hard-coded credentials
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A vulnerability has been found in Cisco Policy Suite up to 18.1.x and classified as very critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Cluster Manager. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a hard-coded credentials vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-798. The product contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key, which it uses for its own inbound authentication, outbound communication to external components, or encryption of internal data. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
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.
The bug was discovered 07/18/2018. The weakness was disclosed 07/18/2018 with Cisco as cisco-sa-20180718-policy-cm-de as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-0375 since 11/27/2017. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/08/2020). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1110.001 according to MITRE ATT&CK.
Upgrading to version 18.2.0 eliminates this vulnerability.
The entries 121929, 121928 and 121926 are pretty similar.
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Class: Hard-coded credentialsCWE: CWE-798 / CWE-259 / CWE-255
ATT&CK: T1110.001
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
Upgrade: Policy Suite 18.2.0
Timeline
11/27/2017 🔍07/18/2018 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: cisco.comAdvisory: cisco-sa-20180718-policy-cm-de
Organization: Cisco
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2018-0375 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 104852 - Cisco Policy Suite Cluster Manager CVE-2018-0375 Insecure Default Password Vulnerability
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Entry
Created: 07/19/2018 09:33Updated: 03/08/2020 13:22
Changes: 07/19/2018 09:33 (63), 03/08/2020 13:22 (5)
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