VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2022-30271

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL

EPSS probability1.06%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2022-07-26

Last modified2026-06-17

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

The Motorola ACE1000 RTU through 2022-05-02 ships with a hardcoded SSH private key and initialization scripts (such as /etc/init.d/sshd_service) only generate a new key if no private-key file exists. Thus, this hardcoded key is likely to be used by default.

Weakness classification

CWE-259: Use of Hard-coded Password
CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Primary references

cve@mitre.org — Mitigation, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
cve@mitre.org — Not Applicable
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mitigation, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Not Applicable