CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-40119

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2021-11-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-11-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/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-321, CWE-798

Description

A vulnerability in the key-based SSH authentication mechanism of Cisco Policy Suite could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to log in to an affected system as the root user. This vulnerability is due to the re-use of static SSH keys across installations. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by extracting a key from a system under their control. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to log in to an affected system as the root user.

Affected configurations

• cisco policy suite (< 21.1.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-321 Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key weakness
  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials weakness

References