Vulnerability in Cisco Web Security Appliance

CVE-2015-0692

Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices with software 8.5.0-ise-147 do not properly restrict use of the pickle Python module during certain tunnel-status checks, which allows local users to execute arbitrary Python code and gain privileges via crafted serialized objects, aka Bug ID CSCut39230.

EPSS: 0.004 (30.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Cisco Web_security_appliance — versions 8.5_base
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

psirt@cisco.com (x_refsource_CISCO, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
psirt@cisco.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)