CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-6781

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2017-08-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-08-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-287

Description

A vulnerability in the management of shell user accounts for Cisco Policy Suite (CPS) Software for CPS appliances could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain elevated privileges on an affected system. The affected privilege level is not at the root level. The vulnerability is due to incorrect role-based access control (RBAC) for shell user accounts. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to an affected appliance and providing crafted user input via the CLI. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to acquire a higher privilege level than should have been granted. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must log in to the appliance with valid credentials. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCve37724. Known Affected Releases: 9.0.0, 9.1.0, 10.0.0, 11.0.0, 12.0.0.

Affected configurations

• cisco policy suite 9.0.0 • cisco policy suite 9.1.0 • cisco policy suite 10.0.0 • cisco policy suite 11.0.0 • cisco policy suite 12.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References