CVE-2008-1246
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.8 High
- Published
- Mar 10, 2008
- Updated
- Jan 17, 2025
- Reserved
- Mar 10, 2008
Description
The Cisco PIX/ASA Finesse Operation System 7.1 and 7.2 allows local users to gain privileges by entering characters at the enable prompt, erasing these characters via the Backspace key, and then holding down the Backspace key for one second after erasing the final character. NOTE: third parties, including one who works for the vendor, have been unable to reproduce the flaw unless the enable password is blank
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
|
References
- 20080301 The Router Hacking Challenge is Over!mailing-list
- 20080124 Re: PIX Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilitymailing-list
- 27457vdb-entry
- http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/router-hacking-challenge/
- 20080205 Re: Re: PIX Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilitymailing-list
- 20080125 Re: Re: PIX Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilitymailing-list
- cisco-pixasa-privilege-escalation(41129)vdb-entry
- http://hackathology.blogspot.com/2008/01/pixasa-finesse-71-72-privilege.html
- 20080124 PIX Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilitymailing-list
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