Description
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 7.10, 8.04 LTS, and 8.10, when installed as a virtual machine by (1) python-vm-builder or (2) ubuntu-vm-builder in VMBuilder 0.9 in Ubuntu 8.10, have ! (exclamation point) as the default root password, which allows attackers to bypass intended login restrictions.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Access Vector
- local
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- complete
- Integrity
- complete
- Availability
- complete
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- DCGRENDEL
- Published
- 11/17/2008
- Last Modified
- 4/9/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
dcgrendel : vmbuilder
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