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CVE-2017-12225

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

A vulnerability in the web functionality of the Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to hijack another user's administrative session, aka a Session Fixation Vulnerability. The vulnerability is due to the reuse of a preauthentication session token as part of the postauthentication session. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by obtaining the presession token ID. An exploit could allow an attacker to hijack an existing user's session. Known Affected Releases 4.2(5). Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf58392.

Affected products

• Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution: 4.2(5)

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039285
• https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvf58392
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170906-prime-lms
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039285
• https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvf58392
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170906-prime-lms

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