Privilege escalation in Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning - CVE-2018-0141

 

Privilege escalation in Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning - CVE-2018-0141

Published: March 9, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10895
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0141
CWE-ID: CWE-259
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc
Affected software:
Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning

Detailed vulnerability description

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.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-0141

Install update from vendor's website.

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