CVE-2017-11693
MEDHOST Document Management System contains hard-coded credentials that are used for customer database access.
Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON
Summary
MEDHOST Document Management System contains hard-coded credentials that are used for customer database access. An attacker with knowledge of the hard-coded credentials and the ability to communicate directly with the database may be able to obtain or modify sensitive patient and financial information. PostgreSQL is used as the Document Management System database. The account name is dms. The password is hard-coded throughout the application, and is the same across all installations. Customers do not have the option to change passwords. The dms account for PostgreSQL has access to the database schema for Document Management System.
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
1.00% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 3.0 | 9.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVD | 2.0 | 6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials
References
- seclists.org /fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/71 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2017-11693
- NVD: CVE-2017-11693
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