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Cisco Mobility Express 2800 and 3800 Series Wireless LAN Controllers Shell Bypass Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

CISCO

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.2

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

7 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

A vulnerability in the CLI command parser of the Cisco Mobility Express 2800 and 3800 Series Wireless LAN Controllers could allow an authenticated, local attacker to obtain access to the underlying operating system shell with root-level privileges.

Insight

Insight

The vulnerability is due to incorrect permissions being assigned to configured users on the device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the device and issuing certain commands at the CLI.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

See vendor advisory.

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