The remote-support feature on Cisco Web Security Virtual Appliance (WSAv), Email Security Virtual Appliance (ESAv), and Security…

Description

The remote-support feature on Cisco Web Security Virtual Appliance (WSAv), Email Security Virtual Appliance (ESAv), and Security Management Virtual Appliance (SMAv) devices before 2015-06-25 uses the same default SSH host keys across different customers' installations, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging knowledge of a private key from another installation, aka Bug IDs CSCus29681, CSCuu95676, and CSCuu96601.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs
• CWE-310 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-310 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (5)

• 20150625 Multiple Default SSH Keys Vulnerabilities in Cisco Virtual WSA, ESA, and SMA (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
• 1032725 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 20150625 Cisco Virtual WSA, ESA, and SMA Default SSH Host Keys Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
• 1032726 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 75418 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2015-4217](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2015-4217.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2015-4217)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 06:11 UTC.