CVE-2015-0693 describes a critical vulnerability in Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices running software version 8.5.0-ise-147. This flaw allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary Python code and escalate privileges by exploiting improper restrictions on the pickle Python module during tunnel-status checks. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this vulnerability carries a high severity, indicating that an attacker could achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.5_baseCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:web_security_appliance:8.5_base:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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