CVE-2018-0130

CRITICAL

Cisco Elastic Services Controller - Auth Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0094
EPSS Percentile 76.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-1188 CWE-264
Status published
Products (1)
cisco/virtual_managed_services 3.0
Published Feb 22, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026