CVE-2016-6435

medium

Published 2016-10-06 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

The web console in Cisco Firepower Management Center 6.0.1 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via crafted parameters, aka Bug ID CSCva30376.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

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.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-40464 webapps cgi

KoreLogic · 2016-10-05

Cisco Firepower Threat Management Console 6.0.1 - Local File Inclusion

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/http/cisco_firepower_download rank 300

Cisco Firepower Management Console 6.0 Post Auth Report Download Directory Traversal

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
cisco	secure_firewall_management_center	`6.0.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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