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CVE-2002-0774: Hosting Controller: Hard-coded credentials or backdoor

CVE-2002-0774 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Hosting Controller. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

Hosting Controller creates a default user AdvWebadmin with a default password, which could allow remote attackers to gain privileges if the password is not changed.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

• Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
• Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
• Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
• Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
• Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
• Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

• Hosting Controller: 1.1; 1.3; 1.4; 1.4.1; 1.4b

References

• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9131.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4779
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-05/0168.html