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CVE-2015-1842

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-255

Description

The puppet manifests in the Red Hat openstack-puppet-modules package before 2014.2.13-2 uses a default password of CHANGEME for the pcsd daemon, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• OpenStack: through 6.0

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0789.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0791.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0830.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0831.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0832.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74049
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201875
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0789.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0791.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0830.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0831.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0832.html

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