Wireless Lan Solution EngineApplication · Cisco
CVE-2007-5382
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe conversion utility for converting CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) 4.1.91.0 and earlier to Cisco Wireless Control System (WCS) creates administrator accounts with default usernames and passwords, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThe conversion utility for migrating CiscoWorks WLSE to Cisco WCS creates administrator accounts with default usernames and passwords during the migration process. Attackers can exploit these well-known static credentials to gain full administrative privileges on the converted WCS system.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Wireless Lan Solution EngineApplication
<= 4.1.91.0
Wireless Control SystemHardware / appliance
= 4.1.91.0CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Authentication
- None
- Confidentiality
- Complete
- Integrity
- Complete
- Availability
- Complete
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm WCS versionIdentify the installed version of Cisco Wireless Control SystemAffected if Version equals 4.1.91.0
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Determine migration originEstablish whether this WCS system was created through migration from CiscoWorks WLSEAffected if Migration from WLSE to WCS was performed
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Review administrator accountsAccess the WCS administrator panel and enumerate all administrator accountsAffected if Unexpected or additional administrator accounts exist beyond those intentionally created
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Inspect for default migration accountsVerify whether any administrator accounts were created during the WLSE-to-WCS migration processAffected if Default accounts created during migration are present in the system
A user is affected if they are running WCS version 4.1.91.0 that was migrated from WLSE and still have default administrative accounts from the migration process active.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImmediately change or remove all default administrator accounts created during the migration before exposing the system to any network access. Verify no unauthorized accounts exist in the WCS administrator panel.
Fix this in Wireless Lan Solution Engine
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Implementation2.0 h
- Testing2.0 h
- Review / QA1.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2007-5382 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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