VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-6316

medium
Published 2015-11-06 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

The default configuration of sshd_config in Cisco Mobility Services Engine (MSE) through 8.0.120.7 allows logins by the oracle account, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by entering this account's hardcoded password in an SSH session, aka Bug ID CSCuv40501.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cisco ciscomobility_services_engine5.1_base
cisco ciscomobility_services_engine5.2_base
cisco ciscomobility_services_engine6.0_base
cisco ciscomobility_services_engine7.0_base
cisco ciscomobility_services_engine7.4.100.0
cisco ciscomobility_services_engine7.4.110.0
cisco ciscomobility_services_engine7.4.121.0
cisco ciscomobility_services_engine7.4_base
cisco ciscomobility_services_engine7.5.102.101
cisco ciscomobility_services_engine7.6.100.0
cisco ciscomobility_services_engine7.6.120.0
cisco ciscomobility_services_engine7.6.132.0
cisco ciscomobility_services_engine8.0\(110.0\)
cisco ciscomobility_services_engine8.0_base

References

CWEs

CWE-255

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.