CVE-2018-0147

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Mar 8, 2018
Updated: Jan 12, 2026
Reserved: Nov 27, 2017

Description

A vulnerability in Java deserialization used by Cisco Secure Access Control System (ACS) prior to release 5.8 patch 9 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insecure deserialization of user-supplied content by the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted serialized Java object. An exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the device with root privileges. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvh25988.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cisco Secure Access Control Systemn/a	Cisco Secure Access Control SystemAffected

References

1040463vdb-entry
103328vdb-entry
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180307-acs2
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2018-0147government-resource

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