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CVE-2018-0375

A vulnerability in the Cluster Manager of Cisco Policy Suite before 18.2.0 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to log in to an affected system using the root account, which has default, static user credentials. The vulnerability is due to the presence of undocumented, static user credentials for the root account. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using the account to log in to an affected system. An exploit could allow the attacker to log in to the affected system and execute arbitrary commands as the root user. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvh02680.

CVSS 9.8 · CriticalBuzz score 21.9

Buzz score

Why this CVE is surfacing

Buzz score total 21.9

This all-time snapshot uses the same composite formula as Trending across a 30-year evidence window, rather than a current rolling window.

Buzz score components · mention 13.9 · diversity 8.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
Mention score
13.9
3 evidence mentions in the snapshot
Diversity score
8.0
3 sources across 1 categories
KEV score
0.0
No KEV entry observed
OTX score
0.0
0 OTX pulses
PoC score
0.0
0 repos · best confidence N/A
Best PoC traction
0
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Why it matters now

Mention timeline

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Evidence

Source links by recency

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  • Cisco has issued another batch of fixes, plugging a number of critical and high severity holes in its Policy Suite, SD-WAN, and Nexus products. Cisco Policy Suite Users of the Cisco Policy Suite should upgrade to Release 18.2.0 as soon as possible, as it implements fixes for four critical vulnerabilities: A vulnerability (CVE-2018-0376) in the Policy Builder interface of the Suite that could be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access the Policy Builder … More →

    newswww.helpnetsecurity.comJul 19, 2018, 5:31 PM
  • Cisco has found over a dozen critical and high severity vulnerabilities in its Policy Suite, SD-WAN, WebEx and Nexus products. The tech giant has reported customers four critical vulnerabilities affecting the Policy Suite. The flaws tracked as CVE-2018-0374, CVE-2018-0375, CVE-2018-0376, and CVE-2018-0377 have been discovered during internal testing. Two of these flaws could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to access […]

    newssecurityaffairs.comJul 19, 2018, 7:00 AM
  • Cisco informed customers on Wednesday that it has found and patched over a dozen critical and high severity vulnerabilities in its Policy Suite, SD-WAN, WebEx and Nexus products.

    newswww.securityweek.comJul 19, 2018, 5:14 AM

Exploit code

Public exploit repository references

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