CVE-2012-4074

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-09-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-255

Description

The Board Management Controller (BMC) in the Serial over LAN (SoL) subsystem in Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) relies on a hardcoded private key, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information or modify the data stream by leveraging knowledge of this key, aka Bug ID CSCte90338.

Affected products

Cisco Unified Computing System (Managed): all versions

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2012-4074
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029073
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2012-4074
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029073

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