CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2015-1842

HIGHEPSS 91th pctl
10.0
CVSS v2
NVD

Description

The puppet manifests in the Red Hat openstack-puppet-modules package before 2014.2.13-2 uses a default password of CHANGEME for the pcsd daemon, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via unspecified vectors.

CWE-255

How to fix

No published remediation has been found for this vulnerability's affected products yet.

Mitigation guidance may be in the linked vendor advisories in the References section below.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

5.22%probability of exploitation in 30 days
91stpercentile

High risk: more likely to be exploited than 91% of all known CVEs.

References

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