CVE-2004-1461 describes an authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) versions 3.2(3) and earlier. This flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to gain unauthorized access to the ACS GUI by connecting to a randomly generated TCP port that is opened during a user authentication attempt. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, enabling attackers to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact with low attack complexity. Although there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit module, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with over 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_access_control_server:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_access_control_server:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_access_control_server:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_access_control_server:3.2:*:windows_server:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.2\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_access_control_server:3.2\(1\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.