CVE-2012-4078

high
Published 2013-09-24 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
8.5
VIR risk
8.5

Description

The Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) in Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) does not properly handle SSH escape sequences, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass an unspecified authentication step via SSH port forwarding, aka Bug ID CSCtg17656.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@cisco.com — http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2012-4078

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ciscounified_computing_system1.0\(2k\)
ciscounified_computing_system1.0_base
ciscounified_computing_system1.1\(1m\)
ciscounified_computing_system1.1_base

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.