Cross-site scripting in Cisco Secure Access Control - CVE-2017-6769
Published: July 31, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7607
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6769
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc
Affected software:
Cisco Secure Access Control
Cisco Secure Access Control
Detailed vulnerability description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists in the web-based management interface of the Cisco Secure Access Control System (ACS) due to insufficient validation and a lack of encoding of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim’s browser in security context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-6769
Cybersecurity Help is
currently unaware of any official patch addressing the vulnerability.