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CVE-2006-1961

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-1961 describes a command injection vulnerability affecting several Cisco products, including CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE), Hosting Solution Engine (HSE), User Registration Tool (URT), Ethernet Subscriber Solution Engine (ESSE), and CiscoWorks2000 Service Management Solution (SMS). This flaw allows local users to gain Linux shell access by injecting shell metacharacters into arguments of the "show" command within the application's command-line interface. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered high severity, as it permits full compromise (confidentiality, integrity, availability) with low attack complexity and no authentication required. Despite its age and severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:user_registration_tool:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:wireless_lan_solution_engine:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:wireless_lan_solution_engine:2.0:*:express:*:*:*:*:*
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:wireless_lan_solution_engine:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:wireless_lan_solution_engine:2.1:*:express:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0271 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/19736
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/19739
secunia.com / advisories/19741
securitytracker.com / id
Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/25884
assurance.com.au / advisories/200604-cisco.txt
cisco.com / warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20060419-wlse.shtml
Patch
cisco.com / warp/public/707/cisco-sr-20060419-priv.shtml
Patch
osvdb.org / 24813
securityfocus.com / archive/1/431367/30/5490/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/431371/30/5490/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/17609
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/1434
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/1435