CVE-2017-6696 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Cisco Elastic Services Controllers, allowing an authenticated local attacker to access sensitive user credentials due to a flaw in the file system. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), this vulnerability requires local access and low attack complexity to achieve high confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.3\(2\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:elastic_services_controller:2.3\(2\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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