What is CVE-2016-1404?

CVE-2016-1404 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cisco Ucs Invicta C3124sa Appliance, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2016-05-29.

How severe is CVE-2016-1404?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Cisco Ucs Invicta C3124sa Appliance

CVE-2016-1404

Cisco UCS Invicta 4.3, 4.5, and 5.0.1 on Invicta appliances and Invicta Scaling System uses the same hardcoded GnuPG encryption key across different customers' installations, which allows remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by sniffing network traffic to an Autosupport server and leveraging knowledge of this key from another installation, aka Bug ID CSCur85504.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.011 (63.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Cisco Ucs_invicta_c3124sa_appliance — versions 4.3.1, 4.3_base, 4.5.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-1404?: CVE-2016-1404 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cisco Ucs Invicta C3124sa Appliance, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2016-05-29.
How severe is CVE-2016-1404?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.