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high 8.5

CVE-2012-1803 in the critical feed json

RuggedCom Rugged Operating System (ROS) 3.10.x and earlier has a factory account with a password derived from the MAC Address field in the…

published 2012-04-28 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-1813

cvss
8.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
48.9%
EPSS 48.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
2
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

RuggedCom Rugged Operating System (ROS) 3.10.x and earlier has a factory account with a password derived from the MAC Address field in the banner, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by performing a calculation on this address value, and then establishing a (1) TELNET, (2) remote shell (aka rsh), or (3) serial-console session.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-12-146-01A updated cvss 8.5

RuggedCom Weak Cryptography for Password Vulnerability

  • Siemens ROS <=3.2.x, >=3.3.x
    affected: mitigation “Versions 3.10.1, 3.9.3, 3.8.5, and 3.7.9 of the ROS firmware with security-related fixes are now available and can be obtained from RuggedCom technical support at (mailto:support@ruggedcom.com)” cert-portal.siemens.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-18779)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

48.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 8.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.