What is CVE-2018-0375?

CVE-2018-0375 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Cisco Mobility Services Engine, classified under Use of Hard-coded Credentials. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-07-18.

How severe is CVE-2018-0375?

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

Vulnerability in Cisco Mobility Services Engine

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.

EPSS: 0.038 (88.9th 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 Mobility_services_engine — versions 14.0.0
Cisco Policy_suite
N/a Cisco Policy Suite Unknown — versions Cisco Policy Suite unknown

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-798 — Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-0375?: CVE-2018-0375 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Cisco Mobility Services Engine, classified under Use of Hard-coded Credentials. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-07-18.
How severe is CVE-2018-0375?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.