CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-1246

7.8 HIGH Published 2008-03-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-03-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

The Cisco PIX/ASA Finesse Operation System 7.1 and 7.2 allows local users to gain privileges by entering characters at the enable prompt, erasing these characters via the Backspace key, and then holding down the Backspace key for one second after erasing the final character. NOTE: third parties, including one who works for the vendor, have been unable to reproduce the flaw unless the enable password is blank

Affected configurations

• cisco pix asa finesse operation system 7.1 • cisco pix asa finesse operation system 7.2

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References