CVE-2015-6298

critical Cisco
CVSS v3 Base Score
9.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
0.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 40% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: November 6, 2015 (3842 days ago)
Last Modified: May 6, 2026
Vendor: Cisco
Source: NVD

Description

The admin web interface in Cisco AsyncOS 8.x before 8.0.8-113, 8.1.x and 8.5.x before 8.5.3-051, 8.6.x and 8.7.x before 8.7.0-171-LD, and 8.8.x before 8.8.0-085 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote authenticated users to obtain root privileges via crafted certificate-generation arguments, aka Bug ID CSCus83445.

CWE

CWE-78

Affected Products

cisco web security appliance

References

🔗 tools.cisco.com 🔗 www.securitytracker.com 🔗 tools.cisco.com 🔗 www.securitytracker.com