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CVE-2018-15389

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-15389 is a critical vulnerability in Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning (PCP) that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain administrator-level access to the administrative web interface. This is due to a hard-coded, default username and password used during installation that, in some cases, is not replaced. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
12.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:prime_collaboration:12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0151 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media 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

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20181003-cpcp-password
Vendor Advisory