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VAR-202111-0664

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A vulnerability in the key-based SSH authentication mechanism of Cisco Policy Suite could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to log in to an affected system as the root user. This vulnerability is due to the re-use of static SSH keys across installations. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by extracting a key from a system under their control. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to log in to an affected system as the root user. Cisco Policy Suite Contains a vulnerability in the use of hard-coded credentials.Information is obtained, information is tampered with, and service operation is interrupted. (DoS) It may be in a state

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CVE-2021-40119 (GCVE-0-2021-40119)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-04 15:35 – Updated: 2024-11-07 21:51

Title

Cisco Policy Suite Static SSH Keys Vulnerability

Summary

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-321

Assigner

cisco

References

URL

Tags

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/C…

vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCO

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Cisco	Cisco Policy Suite (CPS) Software	Affected: n/a

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Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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CVE-2021-40119 (GCVE-0-2021-40119)

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