CVE-2006-5660

Security Agent Management Center vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

3.6%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

Cisco Security Agent Management Center (CSAMC) 5.1 before 5.1.0.79 does not properly handle certain LDAP error messages, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication requirements via an empty password when using an external LDAP server.

Affected vendor

Cisco

Affected product

Security Agent Management Center

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2006-11-03

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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