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CVE-2017-6748

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.7 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-74

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI parser of the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform command injection and elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid operator-level or administrator-level credentials. Affected Products: virtual and hardware versions of Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA). More Information: CSCvd88855. Known Affected Releases: 10.1.0-204. Known Fixed Releases: 10.5.1-270 10.1.1-234.

Affected products

• Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA): 10.0.0-232, 10.0.0-233, 10.0_base, 10.1.0, 10.1.0-204, 10.1.1-230 (+4)
• Cisco Web Security Virtual Appliance: 10.0.0, 10.0_base, 10.1.0, 10.1.1, 10.1_base, 10.5.1 (+3)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99918
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038956
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170719-wsa2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99918
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038956
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170719-wsa2

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