Cisco ONS 15454 Optical Transport Platform improper authentication

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Cisco ONS 15454 Optical Transport Platform (affected version not known). Affected is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unknown vulnerability in Cisco ONS 15327 before 4.1(3), ONS 15454 before 4.6(1), ONS 15454 SD before 4.1(3), and Cisco ONS15600 before 1.3(0) allows a superuser whose account is locked out, disabled, or suspended to gain unauthorized access via a Telnet connection to the VxWorks shell.

The bug was discovered 02/19/2004. The weakness was published 02/19/2004 with Cisco (Website). The advisory is shared for download at cisco.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2004-0308. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 16202 (Cisco ONS Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities (20040219-ONS)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (15266) and Tenable (16202). Similar entries are available at 522, 523, 524 and 18888.

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Class: Improper authentication
CWE: CWE-287
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Nessus ID: 16202
Nessus Name: Cisco ONS Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities (20040219-ONS)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Organization: Cisco
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-0308 (🔍)
X-Force: 15266
Vulnerability Center: 6906 - [cisco-sa-20040219-ONS] Cisco ONS Unauthenticated Access via Telnet, Critical
SecurityFocus: 9699 - Cisco ONS Platform Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 10933
OSVDB: 4010 - Cisco ONS 15000 Superuser Account Lock Bypass

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Created: 02/27/2015 15:23
Updated: 05/29/2019 15:27
Changes: 02/27/2015 15:23 (69), 05/29/2019 15:27 (1)
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