CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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7.3 | $0-$5k | 0.00 |
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Cisco CBOS 2.3.8. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component NVRAM Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cleartext storage vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-312. The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
Cisco CBOS 2.3.8 and earlier stores the passwords for (1) exec and (2) enable in cleartext in the NVRAM and a configuration file, which could allow unauthorized users to obtain the passwords and gain privileges.
The bug was discovered 07/26/2001. The weakness was released 10/18/2001 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2001-0753. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1555.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 84 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (6453). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 16953, 17514, 17515 and 17517.
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Support
- end of life (old version)
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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Exploiting
Class: Cleartext storageCWE: CWE-312 / CWE-310
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Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Countermeasures
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Timeline
07/26/2001 🔍10/18/2001 🔍
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05/09/2006 🔍
07/09/2014 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: cisco.comAdvisory: cisco.com
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2001-0753 (🔍)
X-Force: 6453
Vulnerability Center: 11365 - [cisco-sa-20010522-cbos] Cisco CBOS Stores password in Cleartext, Low
OSVDB: 8824 - CVE-2001-0753 - Cisco - CBOS - Information Disclosure Issue
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Entry
Created: 07/09/2014 17:23Updated: 06/17/2019 16:12
Changes: 07/09/2014 17:23 (55), 06/17/2019 16:12 (3)
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