#VU10695 Privilege escalation in Cisco Virtual Managed Services - CVE-2018-0130
Published: February 22, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU10695
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0130
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Cisco Virtual Managed Services
Cisco Virtual Managed Services
Software vendor:
Cisco Systems, Inc
Cisco Systems, Inc
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists in the use of JSON web tokens by the web-based service portal of Cisco Elastic Services Controller Software due to the presence of static default credentials for the web-based service portal. A remote attacker can extract the credentials from an image, us those credentials to generate a valid administrative session token for the web-based service portal and gain administrative access to the web-based service portal.
The weakness exists in the use of JSON web tokens by the web-based service portal of Cisco Elastic Services Controller Software due to the presence of static default credentials for the web-based service portal. A remote attacker can extract the credentials from an image, us those credentials to generate a valid administrative session token for the web-based service portal and gain administrative access to the web-based service portal.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.