THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2015-6456
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2015-6456

Mds Pulsenet vulnerability

CVSS
9.0
EPSS
3.8%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
GE Digital Energy MDS PulseNET and MDS PulseNET Enterprise before 3.1.5 have hardcoded credentials for a support account, which allows remote attackers to obtain administrative access, and consequently execute arbitrary code, by leveraging knowledge of the password.
Affected vendor
Ge
Affected product
Mds Pulsenet
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2015-09-18

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low 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 3.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2015-6456

  • Confirm whether Ge Mds Pulsenet is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-6456.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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