Description
Cisco Virtual Central Office 4000 (VCO/4K) uses weak encryption to store usernames and passwords in the SNMP MIB, which allows an attacker who knows the community name to crack the password and gain privileges.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Cisco Virtual Central Office 4000 (VCO/4K) 5.1.3 - Remote Username / Password Retrieval EDB-20372 · remote · Oct 26, 2000 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- A102600-1 vendor-advisory
- 1885 vdb-entry
- cisco-vco-snmp-passwords(5425) vdb-entry