Cisco Media Experience Engine (MXE) 5600 devices that are running Cisco Media Processing Software releases prior to 1.2 ship with a root administrator account that is enabled by default with a default password. An unauthorized user could use this account to modify the software configuration and operating system settings or gain complete administrative control of the device. A software upgrade is not required to resolve this vulnerability. Customers can change the root account password by issuing a configuration command on affected engines. The workarounds detailed in this document provide instructions for changing the root account password.
