CVE-2018-15427

Cisco Video Surveillance Manager Appliance Default Password Vulnerability

N/A

Published: October 5, 2018 at 02:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:42 AM UTC

2 products affected across 1 vendorVideo Surveillance ManagerConnected Safety And Security Ucs C220

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 7%

SSVC

No known exploit

Description

A vulnerability in Cisco Video Surveillance Manager (VSM) Software running on certain Cisco Connected Safety and Security Unified Computing System (UCS) platforms could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to log in to an affected system by using the root account, which has default, static user credentials. The vulnerability is due to the presence of undocumented, default, static user credentials for the root account of the affected software on certain systems. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using the account to log in to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to log in to the affected system and execute arbitrary commands as the root user.