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The remote-support feature on Cisco Web Security Virtual Appliance (WSAv), Email Security Virtual Appliance (ESAv), and Security Management Virtual Appliance (SMAv) devices before 2015-06-25 uses the same default SSH root authorized key across different customers' installations, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass authentication by leveraging knowledge of a private key from another installation, aka Bug IDs CSCuu95988, CSCuu95994, and CSCuu96630

Published Jun 26, 2015

Description

The remote-support feature on Cisco Web Security Virtual Appliance (WSAv), Email Security Virtual Appliance (ESAv), and Security Management Virtual Appliance (SMAv) devices before 2015-06-25 uses the same default SSH root authorized key across different customers' installations, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass authentication by leveraging knowledge of a private key from another installation, aka Bug IDs CSCuu95988, CSCuu95994, and CSCuu96630.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-200

Exposure of Sensitive Information

References (4)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner cisco
Published Jun 26, 2015
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jun 4, 2015
Link CVE-2015-4216
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2015-4216
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2015-4216