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CVE-2015-4282

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-4282 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Cisco Mobility Services Engine (MSE) versions through 8.0.120.7. The flaw stems from weak permissions on certain binary files, allowing a local attacker to write to a file and gain root privileges. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires local access and medium attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, though it did receive limited media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.1_baseCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:mobility_services_engine:5.1_base:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2_baseCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:mobility_services_engine:5.2_base:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0_baseCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:mobility_services_engine:6.0_base:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0_baseCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:mobility_services_engine:7.0_base:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.4.100.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:mobility_services_engine:7.4.100.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.9MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 52nd percentile among its peer group of 1,595 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151104-privmse
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/77435
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1034066
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry