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CVE-2021-1447

CVE information

Published

2 years ago

Last Modified

4 months ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

CVSSv3.1 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

Description

A vulnerability in the user account management system of Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate their privileges to root. This vulnerability is due to a procedural flaw in the password generation algorithm. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enabling specific Administrator-only features and connecting to the appliance through the CLI with elevated privileges. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root and access the underlying operating system. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid Administrator credentials..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
7.2/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

CVSSv3.1 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
6.7/10
Exploit Score
0.8/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
Impact Score
5.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
High
Availability Impact
High
Integrity Impact
High
Scope
Unchanged
User Interaction
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:content_security_management_appliance:*:*:*:
  Yes
13.0.0-249 13.8.1-068
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:content_security_management_appliance:*:*:*:
  Yes
- 12.8.1-002