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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2006-0485

The TCL shell in Cisco IOS 12.2(14)S before 12.2(14)S16, 12.2(18)S before 12.2(18)S11, and certain other releases before 25 January 2006 does not perform Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) command authorization checks, which may allow…

MEDIUM 4.6EPSS 0.36%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.36%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

The TCL shell in Cisco IOS 12.2(14)S before 12.2(14)S16, 12.2(18)S before 12.2(18)S11, and certain other releases before 25 January 2006 does not perform Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) command authorization checks, which may allow local users to execute IOS EXEC commands that were prohibited via the AAA configuration, aka Bug ID CSCeh73049.

CVSS 2.0
4.6 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
0.36% probability · 29th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
cisco/ios
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 0.36%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 0.4% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.