CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-15427

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2018-10-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-10-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-798

Description

A vulnerability in Cisco Video Surveillance Manager (VSM) Software running on certain Cisco Connected Safety and Security Unified Computing System (UCS) platforms could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to log in to an affected system by using the root account, which has default, static user credentials. The vulnerability is due to the presence of undocumented, default, static user credentials for the root account of the affected software on certain systems. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using the account to log in to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to log in to the affected system and execute arbitrary commands as the root user.

Affected configurations

• cisco video surveillance manager 7.10 • cisco video surveillance manager 7.11 • cisco video surveillance manager 7.11.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials weakness

References