CVE-2012-2441
HIGH · CVSS 8.5EPSS 8.5%EU EUVD
RuggedCom Rugged Operating System (ROS) before 3.3 has a factory account with a password derived from the MAC Address field in a banner, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by performing a calculation on this address value, and then establishing a (1) SSH or (2) HTTPS session, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-1803.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 8.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-521
- EPSS score
- 8.5% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-2427)
- Published
- April 28, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-2427 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- siemens / ruggedcom rugged operating system
References
- http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/backdoor-in-mission-critical-hardware-threatens-power-traffic-control-systems.ars(Third Party Advisory)
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Apr/277(Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/889195(Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
- http://www.ruggedcom.com/productbulletin/ros-security-page/(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.us-cert.gov/control_systems/pdf/ICS-ALERT-12-116-01A.pdf(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
- http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/ruggedcom-backdoor/(Third Party Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75244(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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