What is CVE-2017-3842?

CVE-2017-3842 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Device Manager, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2017-02-22.

How severe is CVE-2017-3842?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Device Manager

CVE-2017-3842

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of the Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Device Manager (IDM) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to view sensitive information stored in certain HTML comments. More Information: CSCuh91455. Known Affected Releases: 7.2(1)V7.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.013 (67.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Cisco Intrusion_prevention_system_device_manager — versions 7.2\(1\)v7
N/a Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Device Manager — versions Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Device Manager

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

psirt@cisco.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
psirt@cisco.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
psirt@cisco.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-3842?: CVE-2017-3842 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Device Manager, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2017-02-22.
How severe is CVE-2017-3842?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.