VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-3791

critical
Published 2017-02-01 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
10.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based GUI of Cisco Prime Home could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and execute actions with administrator privileges. The vulnerability is due to a processing error in the role-based access control (RBAC) of URLs. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending API commands via HTTP to a particular URL without prior authentication. An exploit could allow the attacker to perform any actions in Cisco Prime Home with administrator privileges. This vulnerability affects Cisco Prime Home versions from 6.3.0.0 to the first fixed release 6.5.0.1. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvb49837.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
98%
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-20170201-prime-home

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ciscocisco_prime_home6.3.0.0
ciscocisco_prime_home6.3.1.0
ciscocisco_prime_home6.4.0.0
ciscocisco_prime_home6.4.1.0
ciscocisco_prime_home6.4.2.0
ciscocisco_prime_home6.4.2.1

References

CWEs

CWE-287

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