Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning Intermittent Hard-Coded Password Vulnerability

published 2018-10-05 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-7267

cvss: 9.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.5%; EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits: 0; none known

A vulnerability in the install function of Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning (PCP) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access the administrative web interface using a default hard-coded username and password that are used during install. The vulnerability is due to a hard-coded password that, in some cases, is not replaced with a unique password. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to access the administrative web interface with administrator-level privileges.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 23 mo ago (2024-11-25)

Exploit prediction

1.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	9.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Cisco Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning

Classification

Weakness

CWE-255 Credentials Management Errors
CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

tools.cisco.com /security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20181003-cpcp-password
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-15389
NVD CVE-2018-15389

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Summary