VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-1297

high
Published 2016-02-26 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.8

Description

The Device Manager GUI in Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) 4710 A5 before A5(3.1) allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended RBAC restrictions and execute arbitrary CLI commands with admin privileges via an unspecified parameter in a POST request, aka Bug ID CSCul84801.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
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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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cisco ciscoapplication_control_engine_softwarea5\(1.0\)
cisco ciscoapplication_control_engine_softwarea5\(1.1\)
cisco ciscoapplication_control_engine_softwarea5\(1.2\)
cisco ciscoapplication_control_engine_softwarea5\(2.0\)
cisco ciscoapplication_control_engine_softwarea5\(2.1\)
cisco ciscoapplication_control_engine_softwarea5\(2.1e\)
cisco ciscoapplication_control_engine_softwarea5\(3.0\)

References

CWEs

CWE-78

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

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