CVE-2017-6751

high
Published 2017-07-25 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

A vulnerability in the web proxy functionality of the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to forward traffic from the web proxy interface of an affected device to the administrative management interface of an affected device, aka an Access Control Bypass Vulnerability. Affected Products: virtual and hardware versions of Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA). More Information: CSCvd88863. Known Affected Releases: 10.1.0-204 9.0.0-485.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
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_appliance9.0.0-162
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.0.0-193
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.0.0-485
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance10.0.0-232
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance10.0.0-233
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance10.1.0-204
cisco ciscoweb_security_virtual_appliance9.0.0
cisco ciscoweb_security_virtual_appliance10.0.0
cisco ciscoweb_security_virtual_appliance10.1.0
cisco ciscoweb_security_virtual_appliance10.1.1

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.