CVE-2017-6732

medium

Published 2017-07-10 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.7

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.7

Description

A vulnerability in the installation procedure for Cisco Prime Network Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate their privileges to root privileges. More Information: CSCvd47343. Known Affected Releases: 4.2(2.1)PP1 4.2(3.0)PP6 4.3(0.0)PP4 4.3(1.0)PP2. Known Fixed Releases: 4.3(2).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

66%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
cisco	prime_network	`4.2\(2.1\)pp1`
cisco	prime_network	`4.2\(3.0\)pp6`
cisco	prime_network	`4.3\(0.0\)pp4`
cisco	prime_network	`4.3\(1.0\)pp2`

References

CWEs

CWE-269

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

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