Cisco Video Surveillance Manager Appliance Default Password Vulnerability

Published 8 y ago 2018-10-05 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

9.8

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

6.8%

percentile 94%

Public exploits

none known

A vulnerability in Cisco Video Surveillance Manager (VSM) Software running on certain Cisco Connected Safety and Security Unified Computing System (UCS) platforms could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to log in to an affected system by using the root account, which has default, static user credentials. The vulnerability is due to the presence of undocumented, default, static user credentials for the root account of the affected software on certain systems. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using the account to log in to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to log in to the affected system and execute arbitrary commands as the root user.

CISA SSVC assessment

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 23 mo ago 2024-11-25

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

6.83% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	9.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	10.0	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C`

Affected products

Cisco Cisco Video Surveillance Manager

Classification

Weakness

CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

securityfocus.com /bid/105381 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
tools.cisco.com /security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180921-vsm · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO, x_transferred
securitytracker.com /id/1041733 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2018-15427
NVD: CVE-2018-15427

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Summary