VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-1457

high
Published 2016-08-18 · 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 web-based GUI in Cisco Firepower Management Center 4.x and 5.x before 5.3.1.2 and 5.4.x before 5.4.0.1 and Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software on 5500-X devices with FirePOWER Services 4.x and 5.x before 5.3.1.2 and 5.4.x before 5.4.0.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands as root via crafted HTTP requests, aka Bug ID CSCur25513.

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 ciscosecure_firewall_management_center4.10.3.9
cisco ciscosecure_firewall_management_center5.2.0
cisco ciscosecure_firewall_management_center5.3.0.4
cisco ciscosecure_firewall_management_center5.3.1
cisco ciscosecure_firewall_management_center5.4.0

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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