THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2015-6435
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2015-6435

Firepower Extensible Operating System vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
8.7%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
An unspecified CGI script in Cisco FX-OS before 1.1.2 on Firepower 9000 devices and Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Manager before 2.2(4b), 2.2(5) before 2.2(5a), and 3.0 before 3.0(2e) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via a crafted HTTP request, aka Bug ID CSCur90888.
Affected vendor
Cisco
Affected product
Firepower Extensible Operating System
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-78 — OS Command Injection
Published
2016-01-22

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 8.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2015-6435

  • Confirm whether Cisco Firepower Extensible Operating System is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-6435.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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