CVE-2006-1672

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-04-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The installation of Cisco Transport Controller (CTC) for Cisco Optical Networking System (ONS) 15000 series nodes adds a Java policy file entry with a wildcard that grants the java.security.AllPermission permission to any http URL containing "fs/LAUNCHER.jar", which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on a CTC workstation, aka bug ID CSCea25049.

Affected products

Cisco Ons 15310-Cl Series: 0
Cisco Ons 15454 Mspp: all versions
Cisco Ons 15600: 0
Cisco Optical Networking Systems Software: 1.0, 1.1, 1.1(0), 1.1(1), 1.3(0), 3.0 (+14)
Cisco Transport Controller: 4.0.x

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19553
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015871
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20060405-ons.shtml
http://www.osvdb.org/24438
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17384
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1256
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25647
http://secunia.com/advisories/19553
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015871
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20060405-ons.shtml
http://www.osvdb.org/24438
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17384

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