CVE-2016-1404

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-05-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Cisco UCS Invicta 4.3, 4.5, and 5.0.1 on Invicta appliances and Invicta Scaling System uses the same hardcoded GnuPG encryption key across different customers' installations, which allows remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by sniffing network traffic to an Autosupport server and leveraging knowledge of this key from another installation, aka Bug ID CSCur85504.

Affected products

Cisco Ucs Invicta C3124Sa Appliance: 4.3.1, 4.3_base, 4.5.0, 4.5_base, 5.0.1, 5.0_base

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160524-ucs-inv
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035957
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160524-ucs-inv
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035957

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