CVE-2018-17612 Hardcoded credentials in n/a

What is CVE-2018-17612?

CVE-2018-17612 is a high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10, published on 9 Nov 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Sennheiser HeadSetup 7.3.4903 places Certification Authority (CA) certificates into the Trusted Root CA store of the local system, and publishes the private key in the SennComCCKey.pem file within the public software distribution, which allows remote attackers to spoof arbitrary web sites or software publishers for several years, even if the HeadSetup product is uninstalled. NOTE: a vulnerability-assessment approach must check all Windows systems for CA certificates with a CN of 127.0.0.1 or SennComRootCA, and determine whether those certificates are unwanted.

Weakness: CWE-295

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-17612?

It affects 9 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows Rt 8.1, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and 3 more.

How do I fix CVE-2018-17612?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-17612 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2018-17612 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-17612 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Microsoft Windows 10 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-c4fc-cx58-4v39.