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CVE-2018-15427

CRITICAL

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.

Published: Oct 5, 2018 Modified: Jun 17, 2026
CWE-798 CWE-798

CVSS Metrics

CVSSv3
Attack Vector: NETWORK Attack Complexity: LOW Privileges Required: NONE User Interaction: NONE Scope: UNCHANGED Confidentiality Impact: HIGH Integrity Impact: HIGH Availability Impact: HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products (3)

Vendor Product Version
cisco video_surveillance_manager 7.10
cisco video_surveillance_manager 7.11
cisco video_surveillance_manager 7.11.1

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-47wq-mxqc-399h

A vulnerability in Cisco Video Surveillance Manager (VSM) Software running on certain Cisco...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 9.8 / 10
EPSS Score 6.83%

Top 7% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 41.2 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub