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CVE-2018-0095 — A vulnerability in the administrative shell of Cisco AsyncOS on Cisco Email Secu

A vulnerability in the administrative shell of Cisco AsyncOS on Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate their privilege level and gain root access. The attacker has to have a val

CVSS
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EPSS
0.09% (top 75.30%)
CWE
CWE-264
Published
2018-01-18T06:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-12-02T21:44:20.635Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability in the administrative shell of Cisco AsyncOS on Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate their privilege level and gain root access. The attacker has to have a valid user credential with at least a privilege level of a guest user. The vulnerability is due to an incorrect networking…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
na / Cisco Email Security and Content Security Management ApplianceCisco Email Security and Content Security Management Appliance

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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