The default configuration of broker.conf in Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.x before 2.1 has a password of mooo for a Mongo account, which allows remote attackers to hijack the broker by providing this password, related to the openshift.sh script in Openshift Extras before 20130920. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2013-4253 and CVE-2013-4281.
The product initializes or sets a resource with a default that is intended to be changed by the administrator, but the default is not secure.
Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
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Openshift | Redhat | * | * |
Developers often choose default values that leave the product as open and easy to use as possible out-of-the-box, under the assumption that the administrator can (or should) change the default value. However, this ease-of-use comes at a cost when the default is insecure and the administrator does not change it.