The Cisco AMP For Endpoints application allows an authenticated, local attacker to access a static key value stored in the local application

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• cisco advanced malware protection3.1(10)
• cisco advanced malware protection3.1(15)
• cisco advanced malware protection4.0(0)
• cisco advanced malware protection4.0(1)
• cisco advanced malware protection4.0(2)
• cisco advanced malware protection4.1(0)
• cisco advanced malware protection4.1(1)
• cisco advanced malware protection4.1(4)
• cisco advanced malware protection4.2(0)
• cisco advanced malware protection4.2(1)
• cisco advanced malware protection4.3(0)
• cisco advanced malware protection4.3(1)
• cisco advanced malware protection4.4(0)
• cisco advanced malware protection4.4(1)
• cisco advanced malware protection4.4(2)
• cisco advanced malware protection4.4(4)
• cisco advanced malware protection5.0(1)
• cisco advanced malware protection5.0(3)
• cisco advanced malware protection5.0(5)
• cisco advanced malware protection5.0(7)

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (cisco). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• n/a Cisco AMP for Endpoints

  • Cisco AMP for Endpointsaffected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2020-14418A TOCTOU vulnerability exists in madCodeHook before 2020-07-16 that allows local attackers to elevate their privileges to SYSTEM.
  28Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

For convenience in support or manufacturing, an account that is identical on every device is embedded in the software. Credentials learned from one device work on all of them.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const SUPPORT_USER = "support";2const SUPPORT_PASS = "hardcoded-password";

1const creds = await provisioning.deviceCredentials(deviceId);2if (creds.mustRotate) await forcePasswordChange(deviceId);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.