CVE-2015-8362 is a critical vulnerability affecting Harman AMX devices prior to October 12, 2015, where a hardcoded password for the BlackWidow account in the /bin/bw setUpSubtleUserAccount function allows remote attackers to gain unauthorized access via SSH or HTTP. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), this flaw presents a low-complexity attack vector (AV:N/AC:L) leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.2.322CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:harman:amx_firmware:1.2.322:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.3.100CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:harman:amx_firmware:1.3.100:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.