CVE-2018-20402

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-12-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-1188

Description

Safe Software FME Server through 2018.1 creates and enables three additional accounts in addition to the initial administrator account. The passwords to the three accounts are the same as the usernames, which are guest, user, and author. Logging in with these accounts will grant any user the default privilege roles that were also created for each of the accounts.

Affected products

Safe Fme Server: through 2018.1

References

http://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Server_Documentation/Content/AdminGuide/Default_User_Accounts_and_Passwords.htm
http://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Server_Documentation/Content/AdminGuide/Default_User_Accounts_and_Passwords.htm

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