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CVE-2017-6781

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-6781 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Cisco Policy Suite (CPS) Software, allowing an authenticated local attacker to gain elevated privileges due to incorrect role-based access control (RBAC). The attacker must have valid credentials and provide crafted CLI input to exploit this, resulting in a higher privilege level, though not root. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:policy_suite:9.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:policy_suite:9.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:policy_suite:10.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:policy_suite:11.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:policy_suite:12.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
17.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0026 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media 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

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170816-cps
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/100365
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry