HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-3807

Ios vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
3.5%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
Cisco IOS 12.2 and 12.3 on Cisco uBR10012 series devices, when linecard redundancy is configured, enables a read/write SNMP service with "private" as the community, which allows remote attackers to obtain administrative access by guessing this community and sending SNMP requests.
Affected vendor
Cisco
Affected product
Ios
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2008-09-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-3807.
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