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Cisco IP/VC 3500 Series Hard-Coded SNMP Community Strings
Secunia Advisory: SA14122
Release Date: 2005-02-03
Last Update: 2005-03-03
Popularity: 7,875 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

OS:Cisco IP/VC 3500 Series

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-0612


Description:
A security issue has been reported in some Cisco IP/VC Videoconferencing System models, which can be exploited by malicious people to read or manipulate configuration information.

The problem is caused due to hard-coded SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) community strings, which may grant anyone with knowledge of these control over an affected IP/VC device.

The security issue affects the following products:
* Cisco IPVC-3510-MCU
* Cisco IPVC-3520-GW-2B
* Cisco IPVC-3520-GW-4B
* Cisco IPVC-3520-GW-2V
* Cisco IPVC-3520-GW-4V
* Cisco IPVC-3520-GW-2B2V
* Cisco IPVC-3525-GW-1P
* Cisco IPVC-3530-VTA

Solution:
The vendor recommends blocking SNMP traffic (ports 161/udp and 162/udp) to affected devices.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Changelog:
2005-03-03: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050202-ipvc.shtml


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