CVE-2015-6298

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-11-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-78

Description

The admin web interface in Cisco AsyncOS 8.x before 8.0.8-113, 8.1.x and 8.5.x before 8.5.3-051, 8.6.x and 8.7.x before 8.7.0-171-LD, and 8.8.x before 8.8.0-085 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote authenticated users to obtain root privileges via crafted certificate-generation arguments, aka Bug ID CSCus83445.

Affected products

Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA): 8.5.0-497

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151104-wsa
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034059
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151104-wsa
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034059

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