VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-1394

high
Published 2016-07-03 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
8.6
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.6

Description

Cisco Firepower System Software 6.0.0 through 6.1.0 has a hardcoded account, which allows remote attackers to obtain CLI access by leveraging knowledge of the password, aka Bug ID CSCuz56238.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
91%
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 ciscofiresight_system_software6.0.0
cisco ciscofiresight_system_software6.0.0.1
cisco ciscofiresight_system_software6.0.1
cisco ciscofiresight_system_software6.1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-255 CWE-264

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

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