VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-7600

high
Published 2015-10-06 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.2

Description

Cisco VPN Client 5.x through 5.0.07.0440 uses weak permissions for vpnclient.ini, which allows local users to gain privileges by entering an arbitrary program name in the Command field of the ApplicationLauncher section.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.01
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.01.0600
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.2
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.02.0090
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.2.0090
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.03.0530
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.03.0560
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.04.0300
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.5
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.05.0290
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.6
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.06.0160
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.7
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.7.0240
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.7.0290
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.07.0290
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.07.0410
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.07.0440
cisco ciscovpn_client5.0.7.0440

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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