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CVE-2017-6713 — Cisco Elastic Services Controller security vulnerability

Critical CVSS 9.8

A vulnerability in the Play Framework of Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain full access to the affected system. The vulnerability is due to static, default credentials for the Cisco ESC UI that are shared between installations. An attacker who can extract the static credentials from an existing installation of Cisco ESC could generate an admin session token that allows access to all instances of the ESC web UI. This vulnerability affects Cisco Elastic Services Controller prior to releases 2.3.1.434 and 2.3.2. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvc76627.

Severity
Critical
CVSS
9.8 (3.0)
Published
2017-07-06
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-264, CWE-770

Affected products

  • cisco / elastic_services_controller / 1.0.0
  • cisco / elastic_services_controller / 1.1.0
  • cisco / elastic_services_controller / 2.0
  • cisco / elastic_services_controller / 2.1.0
  • cisco / elastic_services_controller / 2.2.0
  • cisco / elastic_services_controller / 2.3.0

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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