RCE in Cisco Virtual Managed Services
CVE-2018-0130
A vulnerability in the use of JSON web tokens by the web-based service portal of Cisco Elastic Services Controller Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain administrative access to an affected system. The vulnerability is due to the presence of static default credentials for the web-based service portal of the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by extracting the credentials from an image of the affected software and using those credentials to generate a valid administrative session token for the web-based service portal of any other installation of the affected software. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain administrative access to the web-based service portal of an affected system. This vulnerability affects Cisco Elastic Services Controller Software Release 3.0.0. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvg30884.
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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.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.019 (78.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 78.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Cisco Virtual Managed Services — versions 3.0
- Cisco Elastic Services Controller — versions Cisco Elastic Services Controller
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/103116 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180221… (Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2018-0130?
- CVE-2018-0130 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Cisco Virtual Managed Services, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-02-22.
- How severe is CVE-2018-0130?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.