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CVE-2017-6713

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

A vulnerability in the Play Framework of Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain full access to the affected system. The vulnerability is due to static, default credentials for the Cisco ESC UI that are shared between installations. An attacker who can extract the static credentials from an existing installation of Cisco ESC could generate an admin session token that allows access to all instances of the ESC web UI. This vulnerability affects Cisco Elastic Services Controller prior to releases 2.3.1.434 and 2.3.2. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvc76627.

Affected products

• Cisco Elastic Services Controller: 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 2.0, 2.1.0, 2.2.0, 2.3.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99437
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170705-esc2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99437
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170705-esc2

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