SB2018030910 - Privilege escalation in Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning
Published: March 9, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018030910
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Privilege escalation (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0141)
CWE-ID: CWE-259 - Use of Hard-coded Password
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local unauthenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists due to hard-coded account password. A local attacker can use the hard-coded credentials to connect to the affected system via Secure Shell (SSH), access the underlying operating system as a low-privileged user and gain root privileges.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.