CVE-2012-4078

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-287 Authentication Issues

Publication date:

24/09/2013

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

The Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) in Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) does not properly handle SSH escape sequences, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass an unspecified authentication step via SSH port forwarding, aka Bug ID CSCtg17656.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

8.50

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_computing_system:1.0\(2k\):::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_computing_system:1.0_base:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_computing_system:1.1\(1m\):::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_computing_system:1.1_base:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_computing_system:1.0\(2k\):::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_computing_system:1.0_base:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_computing_system:1.1\(1m\):::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_computing_system:1.1_base:::::::*

CVE-2012-4078

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools