Cisco Hosting Solution Engine up to 2.5 privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Cisco Hosting Solution Engine up to 2.5. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. Performing a manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2004-0391. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, was found in Cisco Hosting Solution Engine up to 2.5. This affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Cisco Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) 2.0 through 2.5 and Hosting Solution Engine (HSE) 1.7 through 1.7.3 have a hardcoded username and password, which allows remote attackers to add new users, modify existing users, and change configuration.

The bug was discovered 04/07/2004. The weakness was released 06/01/2004 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). It is possible to read the advisory at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2004-0391 since 04/09/2004. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/19/2024). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 55 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 databases at X-Force (15773), SecurityFocus (BID 10076†), OSVDB (5020†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-9736†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

04/07/2004 🔍
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04/09/2004 +2 days 🔍
06/01/2004 +53 days 🔍
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10/16/2014 +3249 days 🔍
11/19/2024 +3687 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: kb.cert.org
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2004-0391 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-0391
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-21891
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X-Force: 15773
SecurityFocus: 10076 - Cisco WLSE/HSE Devices Default Username and Password Vulnerability
OSVDB: 5020 - CiscoWorks WLSE and Cisco HSE default password and username
Vulnerability Center: 9736 - [cisco-sa-20040407-username] Cisco Wireless LAN Solution Engine and Hosting Solution Engine Default, Critical

Entryinfo

Created: 10/16/2014 17:32
Updated: 11/19/2024 16:32
Changes: 10/16/2014 17:32 (57), 06/11/2019 18:04 (4), 11/19/2024 16:32 (17)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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