MCollective Installation hard-coded credentials

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in MCollective and classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component Installation. This manipulation causes hard-coded credentials. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2014-0175. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in MCollective (the affected version unknown). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component Installation. 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:

mcollective has a default password set at install

The weakness was disclosed 12/13/2019. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2014-0175 since 12/03/2013. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1110.001 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 218337 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2014-0175), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

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 Tenable (218337). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Hard-coded credentials
CWE: CWE-798 / CWE-259 / CWE-255
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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 218337
Nessus Name: Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2014-0175

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12/03/2013 🔍
12/13/2019 +2201 days 🔍
12/14/2019 +1 days 🔍
03/04/2025 +1907 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: access.redhat.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2014-0175 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-0175
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-147157

Entryinfo

Created: 12/14/2019 08:11
Updated: 03/04/2025 15:46
Changes: 12/14/2019 08:11 (33), 12/14/2019 08:16 (17), 03/11/2024 15:24 (3), 03/04/2025 15:46 (16)
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Cache ID: 216:9C1:103

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