The account ‘superuser’ on the remote host has the password ‘passw0rd’. An attacker can leverage this issue to gain administrative access to the affected system.
Note that IBM Storwize devices are known to use these credentials to provide administrative access to the device.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
account = "superuser";
password = "passw0rd";
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(80964);
script_version("1.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2022/04/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-1999-0502");
script_name(english:"Default Password (passw0rd) for 'superuser' 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 'superuser' on the remote host has the password
'passw0rd'. An attacker can leverage this issue to gain administrative
access to the affected system.
Note that IBM Storwize devices are known to use these credentials to
provide administrative access to the device.");
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:"2015/01/23");
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) 2015-2022 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_detect.nasl", "account_check.nasl");
script_exclude_keys("global_settings/supplied_logins_only");
script_require_ports("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, nosh:TRUE, nosudo:TRUE, cmd:"lsuser", cmd_regex:"^id", 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, nosh:TRUE, nosudo:TRUE, cmd:"lsuser", cmd_regex:"^id", 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");