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

Published 2016-05-29 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (65.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 65th percentile — 65.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Cisco Ucs Invicta C3124sa Appliance — versions 4.3.1, 4.3_base, 4.5.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

www.securitytracker.com/id/1035957 (vdb-entry)
tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160524… (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.