CVE-2018-16158

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-16158
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-08-30 05:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
DescriptionEaton Power Xpert Meter 4000, 6000, and 8000 devices before 13.4.0.10 have a single SSH private key across different customers' installations and do not properly restrict access to this key, which makes it easier for remote attackers to perform SSH logins (to uid 0) via the PubkeyAuthentication option.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-798

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Eaton Power Xpert Meter 4000 - All All All
Hardware Eaton Power Xpert Meter 4000 - All All All
Operating System Eaton Power Xpert Meter 4000 Firmware All All All All
Operating System Eaton Power Xpert Meter 4000 Firmware All All All All
Hardware Eaton Power Xpert Meter 6000 - All All All
Hardware Eaton Power Xpert Meter 6000 - All All All
Operating System Eaton Power Xpert Meter 6000 Firmware All All All All
Operating System Eaton Power Xpert Meter 6000 Firmware All All All All
Hardware Eaton Power Xpert Meter 8000 - All All All
Hardware Eaton Power Xpert Meter 8000 - All All All
Operating System Eaton Power Xpert Meter 8000 Firmware All All All All
Operating System Eaton Power Xpert Meter 8000 Firmware All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/company/news-insights/cybersecurity/securit... MISC www.eaton.com Vendor Advisory
msf/eaton_known_privkey.rb at master · BrianWGray/msf · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Something Broken - CTRLu.Net MISC www.ctrlu.net Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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