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CVE-2018-0253 — A vulnerability in the ACS Report component of Cisco Secure Access Control Syste

A vulnerability in the ACS Report component of Cisco Secure Access Control System (ACS) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on an affected system. Commands executed by the attacker are processed at the targeted user's privilege level

CVSS
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EPSS
4.29% (top 11.30%)
CWE
CWE-20
Published
2018-05-02T22:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-11-29T15:12:36.241Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability in the ACS Report component of Cisco Secure Access Control System (ACS) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on an affected system. Commands executed by the attacker are processed at the targeted user's privilege level. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of the Action Message Format (AMF) protocol. An attacker could exploit…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
na / Cisco Secure Access Control SystemCisco Secure Access Control System

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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