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Default Password (facepunch) for 'chronos' Account

2013-04-0300:00:00
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The account ‘chronos’ on the remote host has the password ‘facepunch’.

An attacker may leverage this issue to gain access to the affected system.

Note that some builds of Chromium OS are known to use these credentials and allow one to gain root access with ‘sudo’.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#


account = "chronos";
password = "facepunch";

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(65790);
  script_version("1.8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2022/04/11");

  script_cve_id("CVE-1999-0502");

  script_name(english:"Default Password (facepunch) for 'chronos' Account");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote system can be accessed with a default account.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The account 'chronos' on the remote host has the password
'facepunch'.

An attacker may leverage this issue to gain access to the affected
system.

Note that some builds of Chromium OS are known to use these
credentials and allow one to gain root access with 'sudo'.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Set a strong password for this account or use ACLs to restrict access
to the host.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-1999-0502");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'SSH User Code Execution');
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/04/03");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"default_account", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"thorough_tests", value:"true");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Default Unix Accounts");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2022 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_detect.nasl", "account_check.nasl", "telnetserver_detect_type_nd_version.nasl");
  script_exclude_keys("global_settings/supplied_logins_only");
  script_require_ports("Services/telnet", 23, "Services/ssh", 22);

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("default_account.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");

if (supplied_logins_only) audit(AUDIT_SUPPLIED_LOGINS_ONLY);

if (! thorough_tests && ! get_kb_item("Settings/test_all_accounts"))
 exit(0, "Neither thorough_tests nor 'Settings/test_all_accounts' is set.");


affected = FALSE;
ssh_ports = get_service_port_list(svc: "ssh", default:22);
foreach port (ssh_ports)
{
  port = check_account(login:account, password:password, port:port, svc:"ssh");
  if (port)
  {
    affected = TRUE;
    security_report_v4(port:port, severity:SECURITY_HOLE, extra:default_account_report());
  }
}
if(affected) exit(0);

telnet_ports = get_service_port_list(svc: "telnet", default:23);
foreach port (telnet_ports)
{
  port = check_account(login:account, password:password, port:port, svc:"telnet");
  if (port)
  {
    affected = TRUE;
    security_report_v4(port:port, severity:SECURITY_HOLE, extra:default_account_report());
  }
}
if(!affected) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");