CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-5424
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-11-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
Cisco Secure Access Control System (ACS) 5.x before 5.2 Patch 11 and 5.3 before 5.3 Patch 7, when a certain configuration involving TACACS+ and LDAP is used, does not properly validate passwords, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by sending a valid username and a crafted password string, aka Bug ID CSCuc65634.
Affected configurations
• cisco secure access control server 5.0
• cisco secure access control server 5.1
• cisco secure access control server 5.2
• cisco secure access control server 5.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://osvdb.org/87251 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51194 secunia.com
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20121107-acs Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56433 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027733 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79860 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://osvdb.org/87251 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51194 secunia.com
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20121107-acs Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56433 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027733 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79860 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com