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CVE-2018-15389: Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning Intermittent Hard-Coded Password Vulnerability

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-10-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-255

Description

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.

Affected products

• Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning unknown: 12.1

References

• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20181003-cpcp-password
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20181003-cpcp-password

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