In Ciena's Navigator Network Control Suite (NCS) and Manage Control Plan (MCP), there are hidden system accounts used for internal software operations. Some of these accounts have default passwords that may be predictable. While these accounts have very limited permissions on their own, an attacker could combine an attack using one of these accounts with other potential weaknesses to launch a more

In Ciena's Navigator Network Control Suite (NCS) and Manage Control Plan (MCP), there are hidden system accounts used for internal software operations. Some of these accounts have default passwords that may be predictable. While these accounts have very limited permissions on their own, an attacker could combine an attack using one of these accounts with other potential weaknesses to launch a more

vantage6 is an open-source infrastructure for privacy preserving analysis. Versions prior to 5.0.0 provide an initial user with username `root` and password `root`. This is not ideal because attackers know that almost all vantage6 servers have a user with username `root` that probably has admin rights, and the initial password is very weak and it is possible that administrators forget to reset it.

### Impact Vantage6 currently provides an initial user with username `root` and password `root`. This is not ideal for the following reasons: - Attackers know that almost all vantage6 servers have a user with username `root` that probably has admin rights - The initial password is very weak and it is possible that administrators forget to reset it. ### Patches No ### Workarounds It is possible t

An unauthenticated remote attacker can recover a default, hard coded password from a firmware image and thus gain full access to all affected devices.