CVE-2014-0649

critical
Published 2014-01-16 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
VIR risk
9.0

Description

The RMI interface in Cisco Secure Access Control System (ACS) 5.x before 5.5 does not properly enforce authorization requirements, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain superadmin access via a request to this interface, aka Bug ID CSCud75180.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system{"endIncluding":"5.4.0.46.6"}
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.1
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.1.0.44
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.1.0.44.1
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.1.0.44.2
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.1.0.44.3
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.1.0.44.4
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.1.0.44.5
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.2
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.2.0.26
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.2.0.26.1
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.2.0.26.2
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.3.0.40.1
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.3.0.40.2
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.3.0.40.3
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.3.0.40.4
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.3.0.40.5
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.3.0.40.6
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.3.0.40.7
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.3.0.40.8
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.3.0.40.9
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.4.0.46.1
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.4.0.46.2
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.4.0.46.3
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.4.0.46.4
cisco ciscosecure_access_control_system5.4.0.46.5

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.