Prime Collaboration ProvisioningApplication · Cisco
CVE-2018-0204
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 · uneditedA vulnerability in the web portal of the Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning Tool could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to create a denial of service (DoS) condition for individual users. The vulnerability is due to weak login controls. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using a brute-force attack (Repeated Bad Login Attempts). A successful exploit could allow the attacker to restrict user access. Manual administrative intervention is required to restore access. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvd07264.
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 Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning Tool web portal has weak login controls that fail to properly throttle or lock accounts after multiple failed authentication attempts. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by launching a brute-force attack using repeated bad login attempts, which causes the system to lock out legitimate users, creating a denial of service condition. Restoring access requires manual administrative intervention.
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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
Prime Collaboration ProvisioningApplication
= 12.1CVSS 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
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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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Identify if Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning is installedCheck running services or installed applications for 'Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning' or 'cpcm' process on the serverAffected if The product is not installed on the system
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Verify the installed version is 12.1Access the web portal login page or check the software version via CLI: log in as admin and run 'show version' or check the About page in the web interfaceAffected if The version displayed is exactly 12.1 (the only affected version)
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Confirm the web portal is network-accessibleAttempt to reach the login page at the expected URL (typically https://hostname/pcp) from a network perspectiveAffected if The web interface is accessible from network segments where attackers could send login requests
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Check account lockout configurationLog in as administrator and navigate to Administration > User Management or Security settings to examine if account lockout or login throttling is configurable and enabledAffected if No lockout threshold is configured, or the feature is absent from the administration interface
The environment is affected if Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning version 12.1 is installed and its web portal is network-accessible, regardless of lockout configuration, because the vulnerability is in the product itself.
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 dataImplement account lockout policies with temporary account suspension after a configurable threshold of failed login attempts, combined with rate limiting on the login endpoint. Consider adding CAPTCHA or IP-based blocking for repeated authentication failures until the vendor patch is applied.
Fix this in Prime Collaboration Provisioning
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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.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2018-0204 in production — separate from our analysis above.
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