Vulnerability in Cisco Secure Access Control Server
CVE-2006-0561
Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) 3.x for Windows stores ACS administrator passwords and the master key in the registry with insecure permissions, which allows local users and remote administrators to decrypt the passwords by using Microsoft's cryptographic API functions to obtain the plaintext version of the master key.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (28.4th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 28th percentile — 28.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Cisco Secure Access Control Server — versions 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.3
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/16743 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sr-20060508-acs.shtml (vendor-advisory, Patch)
- www.symantec.com/enterprise/research/SYMSA-2006-003.txt (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (Patch, vdb-entry)
- www.osvdb.org/25892 (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1741 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26307 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433286/100/0/threaded (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433301/100/0/threaded (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Patch)