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CVE-2016-1406

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1406 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Cisco Prime Infrastructure before 3.1 and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager before 1.2.4. Remote authenticated users can bypass Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) restrictions by sending crafted JSON data to the API web interface, leading to the disclosure of sensitive information and privilege escalation. This vulnerability carries a high CVSSv3 score of 8.8, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that can result in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:evolved_programmable_network_manager:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:evolved_programmable_network_manager:1.2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.200CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:evolved_programmable_network_manager:1.2.200:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.300CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:evolved_programmable_network_manager:1.2.300:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:prime_infrastructure:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0162 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 17,822 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160523-pi-epnm
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1035948