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Cisco is still hard-coding passwords into its products (www.thestack.technology)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Static credentials with passwords written into a firewall's code. What could go wrong?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (19 children)

To be fair you need physical access

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (18 children)

Where does it say that?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (17 children)

~~Right in the Security Advisory~~

allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to access an affected system using static credentials.

Edit: NVM, later it says

The second is using SSH, which is enabled by default on the management interface of the device.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The management interface is only available with physical access

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Nothing prevents you from putting this on a LAN that can be accessed from over the internet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even if it's not directly accessible from the internet on its own, if it's accessible from an host exposed to the internet then anyone that can compromise a single host can immediately compromise the firewall.

"It's only exposed to the outdated wordpress server" is effectively the same as being exposed to the internet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah that’s my point. Even if the manufacturer actually limits the IP config on the mgmt interface to be configured as not routable over the internet, it could intentionally be on a subnet accessible by some kind of ssh jump server or bastion host. (Or in your example, maybe unintentionally via the Wordpress server.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Nothing prevents you from making it remotely accessible with the password "password" either

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