Nortel CVX 1800 Multi-Service Access Switch - Default SNMP Community

Author: Michael Rawls
type: remote
platform: hardware
port: 
date_added: 2002-04-15  
date_updated: 2012-09-19  
verified: 1  
codes: CVE-2002-0540;OSVDB-14415  
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raw file: 21378.txt  

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4507/info

Nortel CVX 1800 Multi-Service Access Switch is a hardware modem bank.

The device contains a default SNMP community string of "public", which may allow enable a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information such as authentication credentials for local accounts on the device, network infrastructure info, etc.

The following example was provided:

snmpwalk CVX-IP-ADD-RESS public .1