VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-6748

medium
Published 2017-07-25 · 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 parser of the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform command injection and elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid operator-level or administrator-level credentials. Affected Products: virtual and hardware versions of Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA). More Information: CSCvd88855. Known Affected Releases: 10.1.0-204. Known Fixed Releases: 10.5.1-270 10.1.1-234.

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-20170719-wsa2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ciscoweb_security_appliance10.0.0-232
ciscoweb_security_appliance10.0.0-233
ciscoweb_security_appliance10.0_base
ciscoweb_security_appliance10.1.0
ciscoweb_security_appliance10.1.0-204
ciscoweb_security_appliance10.1.1-230
ciscoweb_security_appliance10.5.0
ciscoweb_security_appliance10.5.0-358
ciscoweb_security_appliance11.0.0
ciscoweb_security_appliance11.0.0-613
ciscoweb_security_virtual_appliance10.0.0
ciscoweb_security_virtual_appliance10.0_base
ciscoweb_security_virtual_appliance10.1.0
ciscoweb_security_virtual_appliance10.1.1
ciscoweb_security_virtual_appliance10.1_base
ciscoweb_security_virtual_appliance10.5.1
ciscoweb_security_virtual_appliance10.5_base
ciscoweb_security_virtual_appliance11.0.0
ciscoweb_security_virtual_appliance11.0_base

References

CWEs

CWE-74

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