CVE-2017-6696

medium

Published 2017-06-13 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

A vulnerability in the file system of Cisco Elastic Services Controllers could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain access to sensitive user credentials that are stored in an affected system. More Information: CSCvd73677. Known Affected Releases: 2.3(2).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

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	elastic_services_controller	`2.3\(2\)`

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.