CVE-2018-0362

MEDIUM

Cisco 5400 Enterprise Network Compute... - Authentication Bypass

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in BIOS authentication management of Cisco 5000 Series Enterprise Network Compute System and Cisco Unified Computing (UCS) E-Series Servers could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to bypass the BIOS authentication and execute actions as an unprivileged user. The vulnerability is due to improper security restrictions that are imposed by the affected system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting an empty password value to an affected device's BIOS authentication prompt. An exploit could allow the attacker to have access to a restricted set of user-level BIOS commands. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvh83260.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041173

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0038
EPSS Percentile 29.9%
Attack Vector PHYSICAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-287
Status published
Products (21)
cisco/5100_enterprise_network_compute_system_firmware 3.2\(3\)
cisco/5400_enterprise_network_compute_system_firmware 3.2\(3\)
cisco/ucs-e1120d-k9_firmware 3.2\(3\)
cisco/ucs-e1120d-m3_firmware 3.2\(3\)
cisco/ucs-e140d-k9_firmware 3.2\(3\)
cisco/ucs-e140d-m1_firmware 3.2\(3\)
cisco/ucs-e140dp-k9_firmware 3.2\(3\)
cisco/ucs-e140dp-m1_firmware 3.2\(3\)
cisco/ucs-e140s-k9_firmware 3.2\(3\)
cisco/ucs-e140s-m1_firmware 3.2\(3\)
... and 11 more
Published Jun 21, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026