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CVE-2018-0428 — A vulnerability in the account management subsystem of Cisco Web Security Applia

A vulnerability in the account management subsystem of Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid administrator credentials. The vulnerability is due to improper implemen

CVSS
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EPSS
0.17% (top 61.80%)
CWE
CWE-284
Published
2018-08-15T20:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-11-26T14:46:37.413Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability in the account management subsystem of Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid administrator credentials. The vulnerability is due to improper implementation of access controls. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the device as a specific…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Cisco Systems, Inc.Web Security Applianceunspecified

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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