CVE-2012-4078

Unified Computing System vulnerability

CVSS

8.5

EPSS

3.5%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

The Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) in Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) does not properly handle SSH escape sequences, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass an unspecified authentication step via SSH port forwarding, aka Bug ID CSCtg17656.

Affected vendor

Cisco

Affected product

Unified Computing System

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

Published

2013-09-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring single-factor 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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