CVE-2016-6435

Secure Firewall Management Center vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

36.6%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

The web console in Cisco Firepower Management Center 6.0.1 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via crafted parameters, aka Bug ID CSCva30376.

Affected vendor

Cisco

Affected product

Secure Firewall Management Center

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information

Published

2016-10-06

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 36.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-6435.
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