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Cisco Identity Services Engine Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Published Jan 23, 2019

Description

A vulnerability in the administrative web interface of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain additional privileges on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper controls on certain pages in the web interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the device with an administrator account and sending a crafted HTTP request. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to create additional Admin accounts with different user roles. An attacker could then use these accounts to perform actions within their scope. The attacker would need valid Admin credentials for the device. This vulnerability cannot be exploited to add a Super Admin account.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

References (2)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner cisco
Published Jan 23, 2019
Updated Nov 20, 2024
Reserved Aug 17, 2018
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Nov 20, 2024
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a