CVE-2016-1404

high

Published 2016-05-29 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

Cisco UCS Invicta 4.3, 4.5, and 5.0.1 on Invicta appliances and Invicta Scaling System uses the same hardcoded GnuPG encryption key across different customers' installations, which allows remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by sniffing network traffic to an Autosupport server and leveraging knowledge of this key from another installation, aka Bug ID CSCur85504.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
cisco	ucs_invicta_c3124sa_appliance	`4.3.1`
cisco	ucs_invicta_c3124sa_appliance	`4.3_base`
cisco	ucs_invicta_c3124sa_appliance	`4.5.0`
cisco	ucs_invicta_c3124sa_appliance	`4.5_base`
cisco	ucs_invicta_c3124sa_appliance	`5.0.1`
cisco	ucs_invicta_c3124sa_appliance	`5.0_base`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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