Cisco released 22 security advisories yesterday, including two alerts for critical fixes, one of them for a hardcoded password that can give attackers full control over a vulnerable system.
The hardcoded password issue affects Cisco's Prime Collaboration Provisioning (PCP), a software application that can be used for the remote installation and maintenance of other Cisco voice and video products. Cisco PCP is often installed on Linux servers.
Cisco says that an attacker could exploit this vulnerability (CVE-2018-0141) by connecting to the affected system via Secure Shell (SSH) using the hardcoded password.
The flaw can be exploited only by local attackers, and it also grants access to a low-privileged user account. In spite of this, Cisco has classified the issue as "critical."
Although this vulnerability has a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Base score of 5.9, which is normally assigned a Security Impact Rating (SIR) of Medium, there are extenuating circumstances that allow an attacker to elevate privileges to root. For these reasons, the SIR has been set to Critical.
The reasons are that an attacker can infect another device on the same network and use it as a proxy for his SSH connection to the vulnerable Cisco PCP instance, allowing for remote, over-the-Internet exploitation.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hardcoded-password-found-in-cisco-software/
(Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Friday March 09 2018, @10:26PM (4 children)
ITAR, is a completely shitty law, how they think they can legislate mathematics as a weapon has never made sense to me, but it absolutely doesn't involve mandatory backdoors. It just involves not shipping "weapons" to forbidden countries. As someone who has actually shipped ITAR controlled products I can tell you it is a rubber stamp process.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 09 2018, @10:40PM (3 children)
It is a rubber-stamp process. But you are not American. I am. We will destroy you.
(Score: 3, Funny) by insanumingenium on Friday March 09 2018, @10:56PM (2 children)
Riiiight, guess I will have to turn in my passport, guns, and pet bald eagle now.
(Score: 3, Funny) by LoRdTAW on Saturday March 10 2018, @01:28AM (1 child)
You forgot bacon, or are you one of "those" people?
(Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Monday March 12 2018, @03:38PM
You can take my pork from my cold dead hands μολὼν λαβέ.