A vulnerability in the account management subsystem of Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid administrator credentials. The vulnerability is due to improper implementation of access controls. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the device as a specific user to gain the information needed to elevate privileges to root in a separate login shell. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to escape the CLI subshell and execute system-level commands on the underlying operating system as root. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvj93548.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: cisco
Published: 2018-08-15T20:00:00Z
Updated: 2024-11-26T14:46:37.413Z
Reserved: 2017-11-27T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-0428
 Vulnrichment
                        Vulnrichment
                    Updated: 2024-08-05T03:28:09.824Z
 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Modified
Published: 2018-08-15T20:29:01.360
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:38:12.540
Link: CVE-2018-0428
 Redhat
                        Redhat
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