CVE-2016-1335

high

Published 2016-02-19 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

The SSH implementation in Cisco StarOS before 19.3.M0.62771 and 20.x before 20.0.M0.62768 on ASR 5000 devices mishandles a multi-user public-key authentication configuration, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by establishing a connection from an endpoint that was previously used for an administrator's connection, aka Bug ID CSCux22492.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

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

Vendor	Product	Versions
cisco	asr_5000_series_software	`16.5.2`
cisco	asr_5000_series_software	`17.7.0`
cisco	asr_5000_series_software	`18.4.0`
cisco	asr_5000_series_software	`19.0.1`
cisco	asr_5000_series_software	`19.3.0`
cisco	asr_5000_series_software	`20.0.0`

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.