Cisco Elastic Services Controller Insecure Default Credentials Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Cisco Elastic Services Controllers could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to log in to an affected system as the Linux admin user.

The vulnerability is due to the existence of a default, weak, hard-coded password for the Linux admin user of an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to log in to the affected system as the Linux admin user and perform actions associated with the privileges of the admin user.

There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

This advisory is available at the following link:
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170607-esc3 [“https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170607-esc3”]