CVE-2017-12261 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the restricted shell of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) products (Release 1.4, 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.1.0), including ISE Express and Virtual Appliance. Due to incomplete input validation, an authenticated local attacker can execute arbitrary CLI commands with elevated privileges. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with low attack complexity requiring valid user credentials. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or inclusion in the KEV catalog, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:identity_services_engine:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:identity_services_engine:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:identity_services_engine:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:identity_services_engine:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:identity_services_engine_express:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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