CVE-2020-11543 — OpsRamp Gateway before 7

OpsRamp Gateway before 7.0.0 has a backdoor account vadmin with the password 9vt@f3Vt that allows root SSH access to the server. This issue has been resolved in OpsRamp Gateway firmware version 7.0.0 where an administrator and a system user accounts are the only available user ac

01What is this vulnerability?

OpsRamp Gateway before 7.0.0 has a backdoor account vadmin with the password 9vt@f3Vt that allows root SSH access to the server. This issue has been resolved in OpsRamp Gateway firmware version 7.0.0 where an administrator and a system user accounts are the only available user accounts for the gateway appliance.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-04-07T23:32:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T11:35:13.488Z

09References

• www.criticalstart.com — https://www.criticalstart.com/hard-coded-administrator-password-discovered-in-op…
• docs.opsramp.com — https://docs.opsramp.com/about/release-notes/summer-2020-update/#simplified-gate…