CVE-2016-6433

high
Published 2016-10-06 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
โ€”
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

The Threat Management Console in Cisco Firepower Management Center 5.2.0 through 6.0.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via crafted web-application parameters, aka Bug ID CSCva30872.

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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” 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.

Exploit-DB

EDB-40463 webapps cgi verified
KoreLogic ยท 2016-10-05

Cisco Firepower Threat Management Console 6.0.1 - Remote Command Execution

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.
EDB-41041 remote linux verified
Metasploit ยท 2017-01-13

Cisco Firepower Management Console 6.0 - Post Authentication UserAdd (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

Cisco Firepower Management Console 6.0 Post Authentication UserAdd Vulnerability
Source fetch failed: fetch_error โ€” view the original via the link above.

Application impact

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.