CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-0428

6.7 MEDIUM Published 2018-08-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-08-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-269, CWE-284

Description

A vulnerability in the account management subsystem of Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid administrator credentials. The vulnerability is due to improper implementation of access controls. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the device as a specific user to gain the information needed to elevate privileges to root in a separate login shell. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to escape the CLI subshell and execute system-level commands on the underlying operating system as root. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvj93548.

Affected configurations

• cisco web security appliance 11.0.0-fcs-250 • cisco web security appliance 11.5.0-fcs-000 • cisco web security appliance wsa10.0.0-959 • cisco web security appliance wsa10.5.0-fcs-000

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References