What is CVE-2017-6713?

CVE-2017-6713 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Cisco Elastic Services Controller, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-07-06.

How severe is CVE-2017-6713?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Cisco Elastic Services Controller

CVE-2017-6713

A vulnerability in the Play Framework of Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain full access to the affected system. The vulnerability is due to static, default credentials for the Cisco ESC UI that are shared between installations. An attacker who can extract the static credentials from an existing installation of Cisco ESC could generate an admin session token that allows access to all instances of the ESC web UI. This vulnerability affects Cisco Elastic Services Controller prior to releases 2.3.1.434 and 2.3.2. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvc76627.

EPSS: 0.029 (85.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Cisco Elastic_services_controller — versions 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 2.0
N/a Cisco Elastic Services Controller — versions Cisco Elastic Services Controller

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

psirt@cisco.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
psirt@cisco.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6713?: CVE-2017-6713 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Cisco Elastic Services Controller, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-07-06.
How severe is CVE-2017-6713?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.