CVE-2017-12262 is a critical firewall misconfiguration vulnerability in Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module (APIC-EM) versions prior to 1.5. This flaw allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to bypass firewall rules and gain privileged access to internal network services. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), the vulnerability is easily exploitable (AV:A, AC:L, PR:N, UI:N) and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H, I:H, A:H). While there is no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) or KEV entry, the vulnerability has received some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the security community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:application_policy_infrastructure_controller_enterprise_module:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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