CVE-2009-1161

Ciscoworks Common Services vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

12.5%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

Directory traversal vulnerability in the TFTP service in Cisco CiscoWorks Common Services (CWCS) 3.0.x through 3.2.x on Windows, as used in Cisco Unified Service Monitor, Security Manager, TelePresence Readiness Assessment Manager, Unified Operations Manager, Unified Provisioning Manager, and other products, allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Affected vendor

Cisco

Affected product

Ciscoworks Common Services

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Published

2009-05-21

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 12.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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