VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-12255

medium
Published 2017-09-21 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.7
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
6.7

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco UCS Central Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain shell access. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of commands entered in the CLI, aka a Restricted Shell Break Vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by entering a specific command with crafted arguments. An exploit could allow the attacker to gain shell access to the underlying system. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCve70762.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
66%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@cisco.com — https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170920-ucs

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ciscounified_computing_system1.5\(1c\)

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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