VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-6746

high
Published 2017-07-25 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.2

Description

A vulnerability in the web interface of the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform command injection and elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid administrator credentials. Affected Products: Cisco AsyncOS Software 10.0 and later for WSA on both virtual and hardware appliances. More Information: CSCvd88862. Known Affected Releases: 10.1.0-204. Known Fixed Releases: 10.5.1-270 10.1.1-235.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
81%
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
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance10.0.0-233
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance10.0_base
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance10.1.0
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance10.1.0-204
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance10.1.1-230
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance10.1.1-234
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance10.5.0
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance10.5.0-358
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance11.0.0
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance11.0.0-613
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance11.0.0-641

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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