Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning could leave an installation-time hard-coded administrator password in place. If that occurs, a remote unauthenticated attacker could sign in to the administrative web interface with full privileges. The provided sources do not include CVSS scoring or evidence of active exploitation.
Executive priority
Treat this as a high-priority exposure check where PCP is deployed. The business risk is complete administrative compromise of the provisioning platform if affected credentials remain active, but urgency depends on whether the admin interface is reachable and whether Cisco’s advisory applies to your deployment.
Technical view
CVE-2018-15389 affects the install function of Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning. The issue is a hard-coded password that, in some cases, is not replaced with a unique password, enabling unauthenticated remote administrative web access. The affected version range is not specified in the provided bundle.
Likely exposure
Exposure is likely limited to organizations running Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning where the install process left default hard-coded credentials active, especially if the administrative web interface is reachable from untrusted networks.
Exploitation context
The CVE is not listed as KEV in the provided bundle, and no cited source states active exploitation. The described exploit condition is credential-based administrative web access using an installation default, but the sources do not provide exploit maturity details.
Researcher notes
The public bundle names Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning but does not provide affected version ranges, CVSS data, or patch details. Validation should focus on deployment inventory, credential uniqueness, management-plane exposure, and Cisco advisory applicability. Do not assume exploitation in the wild from the provided evidence.
Mitigation direction
- Review Cisco’s advisory for affected releases and supported remediation guidance.
- Restrict the administrative web interface to trusted management networks only.
- Audit PCP installations for installation-time default or hard-coded administrator credentials.
- Replace any non-unique administrative credentials with unique, strong credentials.
- Monitor administrative logins for unexpected source addresses or account use.
Validation and detection
- Inventory Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning deployments and administrative interface exposure.
- Confirm whether each installation has unique administrative credentials configured.
- Review access controls around the PCP administrative web interface.
- Check authentication logs for unexplained administrator-level web sessions.
- Compare deployed versions and configuration state against Cisco’s advisory.
Public sources used
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- Unknown
- CVSS
- Not scored
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
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CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- 20181003 Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning Intermittent Hard-Coded Password VulnerabilityCVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO
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