CVE-2018-0329 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Software, stemming from a hard-coded, read-only SNMP community string in its default configuration. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this by using the static community string in SNMPv2c queries to read sensitive data from the device. The CVSS score is 5.3, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and a potential impact of data confidentiality compromise. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including an article from BleepingComputer.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.2\(3\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:wide_area_application_services:6.2\(3\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.4\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:wide_area_application_services:6.4\(1\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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