COMMAND
Cisco ConfigMaker
SYSTEMS AFFECTED
CISCO
PROBLEM
Runar Jensen found following. He had his own passwords
(login/enable) set on a Cisco, and had to supply these to
ConfigMaker for it to be able to logon to the router. However,
when he generated a new configuration, it still set the passwords
to a predefined default, which was "cmaker" for both login and
enable (although it may have been for just one of them).
SOLUTION
Damir Rajnovic from Cisco manage to install this thing and play a
bit with it. There is the 'cmaker' password offered as a default
password. He tried with a configured router but it should be the
same with an unconfigured one. It seems that, if you do not have
password configured (e.g. he did not have it on vty) ConfigMaker
will put the default (cmaker) in that place.
There is a warning, severe warning to be precise, when you read in
the existing config that warns you that 'cmaker' is set as the
password and that you should change it. Unfortunately, it is to be
expected that, lesser and unexperienced admins, will leave it as it
is.
That is a security risk and CISCO will address it as a such.