CVE-2016-6470

high

Published 2016-12-14 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/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

7.8

Description

A vulnerability in the installation procedure of the Cisco Hybrid Media Service could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to the root level. More Information: CSCvb81344. Known Affected Releases: 1.0.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

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	Fixed
cisco	hybrid_media_service	`1.0_base`

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.