CVE-2014-2127

high

Published 2014-04-10 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.5

Description

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 8.x before 8.2(5.48), 8.3 before 8.3(2.40), 8.4 before 8.4(7.9), 8.6 before 8.6(1.13), 9.0 before 9.0(4.1), and 9.1 before 9.1(4.3) does not properly process management-session information during privilege validation for SSL VPN portal connections, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by establishing a Clientless SSL VPN session and entering crafted URLs, aka Bug ID CSCul70099.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/http/cisco_ssl_vpn_priv_esc rank 300

Cisco ASA SSL VPN Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.