CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-2441
8.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-04-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 8.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-521
Description
RuggedCom Rugged Operating System (ROS) before 3.3 has a factory account with a password derived from the MAC Address field in a banner, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by performing a calculation on this address value, and then establishing a (1) SSH or (2) HTTPS session, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-1803.
Affected configurations
• siemens ruggedcom rugged operating system (< 3.3.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-521 Weak Password Requirements weakness
References
- http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/backdoor-in-mission-critical-hardware-threatens-power-traffic-control-systems.ars Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Apr/277 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/889195 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.ruggedcom.com/productbulletin/ros-security-page/ Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.us-cert.gov/control_systems/pdf/ICS-ALERT-12-116-01A.pdf Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/ruggedcom-backdoor/ Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75244 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/backdoor-in-mission-critical-hardware-threatens-power-traffic-control-systems.ars Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Apr/277 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/889195 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.ruggedcom.com/productbulletin/ros-security-page/ Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.us-cert.gov/control_systems/pdf/ICS-ALERT-12-116-01A.pdf Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/ruggedcom-backdoor/ Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75244 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry