Title: Cisco Guard And Traffic Anomaly Detector Default Backdoor Account Vulnerability
Severity: CRITICAL
Description:
Cisco Guard is a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) mitigation appliance. Cisco Anomaly Detector is a anomaly detection appliance designed to monitor networks for signs of DDoS attacks, worms, and other attacks.
It is reported that Cisco Guard and Anomaly Detector appliances contain a default backdoor account vulnerability.
These appliances contain an undocumented user with a username of 'root', and an unspecified default password. This is an administrative account, with privileges similar to the Unix superuser.
By exploiting this vulnerability, attackers with SSH, or HTTPS access to affected devices may gain administrative access.
Versions of Cisco Guard prior to 3.1, and versions of Cisco Anomaly Detector prior to 3.1 are reportedly affected by this vulnerability.
Affected Products:
- Cisco Anomaly Detector 3.0.08
- Cisco Guard 3.0.0 8
- Cisco Guard 3.0.0 8.12
References:
- CIsco: Guard Product Page
- Cisco: Anomaly Detector Product Page
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